With  tlie  Compliments  of 


THE    CLASS    OF    1833. 


^MEMORIALS 


OF 


THE    CLASS    OF    1833 

OF    HARVARD    COLLEGE 


PREPARED    FOR   THE 

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anmtergar?  of  ti&eir 


BY  THE   CLASS   SECRETARY 


WALDO     HIGGINSON 


CAMBRIDGE: 
JOHN    WILSON    AND    SON. 

site  13rrss. 
1883. 


PREFATORY     NOTE. 


HTHE  CLASS  BOOK  and  all  records  of  the  Class 
of  1833  were  burnt  in  the  great  fire  in  Boston 
in  1872,  when  their  custodian  was  in  Europe. 

This  irreparable  loss  must  necessarily  diminish  the 
value  of  the  following  pages,  as  it  has  certainly  in- 
creased the  labor  of  preparing  them. 

It  is  hoped,  however,  that  the  memorials,  here  sub- 
mitted, of  widely  scattered  classmates  will  give  as 
much  pleasure  to  the  survivors,  as  their  collection 
has  to  the  Secretary. 

WALDO   HIGGINSON. 
BOSTON,  June  i,  1883. 


TABLE   OF  CONTENTS. 


PREFATORY  NOTE 5 

LIST  OF  GRADUATES  OF  1833 9 

NECROLOGY  OF  GRADUATES  OF  1833 n 

MEMOIRS  OF  THE  DECEASED 17 

NOTICES  OF  THE  SURVIVORS 97 

LIST  OF   STUDENTS,  SOME  TIME  IN  THE  CLASS  OF  1833,  WHO 

DID  NOT  GRADUATE  WITH  IT 145 

NOTICES  OF  STUDENTS  MENTIONED  ABOVE 147 


GRADUATES 

OF    THE    CLASS    OF     1833. 


•ALLEN,  JOHN  CLARKE 17 

ANDREWS,  SAMUEL  PAGE 97 

BAKER,  JAMES  LORING 100 

*BATES,  CHARLES  JARVIS 27 

*BOLTON,  THOMAS 46 

•BOURNE,  THOMAS  ROTCH 21 

BOWEN,  FRANCIS 100 

CLARK,  LUTHER 103 

CRAFTS,  GEORGE  INGLIS 104 

CURTIS,  HIRAM  KEITH 105 

•DEHON,  WILLIAM 66 

Dix,  JOHN  HOMER 106 

DRAPER,  CHARLES 107 

•EATON,  GEORGE    • 78 

ELLIS,  GEORGE  EDWARD      .    .    .* 109 

•FOSTER,  ANDREW 84 

GAY,  SYDNEY  HOWARD 112 

•GRAY,  HENRY  YANCEY 56 

•GREENOUGH,  DAVID  STODDARD 77 

•HARDING,  FISHER  AMES 24 

•HARRINGTON,  JOSEPH,  JR 30 

HARTSHORN,  CHARLES  WARREN 115 

HIGGINSON,  WALDO 116 

•JACKSON,  CHARLES 53 

•JARVIS,  WILLIAM  PORTER 86 


IO  THE   CLASS   OF   1833. 

•KELLY,  MOSES 43 

LIVERMORE,  ABIEL  ABBOT 117 

LOVERING,  JOSEPH 121 

LOWELL,  ROBERT  TRAILL  S  PENCE 128 

*LYMAN,  JOHN  CHESTER 91 

MACK,  WILLIAM 130 

NICHOLS,  GEORGE  HENRY 131 

*PARKER,  FREDERIC 35 

PECK,  WILLIAM  DANDRIDGE 132 

•PEIRCE,  CHARLES  HENRY 33 

•PENDLETON,  ISAAC  PURNELL .22 

*POPE,  THOMAS  BUTLER 37 

*PORTER,  HUNTINGTON 19 

PRICHARD,  WILLIAM  MACKAY 133 

*RUTTER,  JOSIAH .  75 

STEARNS,  EDWARD  JOSIAH 133 

*STONE,  JOHN  OSGOOD      . 71 

*TORREY,  RUFUS  CAMPBELL 89 

TORREY,  HENRY  WARREN 136 

TUCKER,  NATHANIEL  SAVILLE 137 

WATSON,  WINSLOW  MARSTON 138 

•WEBSTER,  FLETCHER 38 

WELCH,  CHARLES  ALFRED 139 

*WELD,  CHRISTOPHER  MINOT 82 

•WHITE,  JOSEPH 20 

*WHITING,  WILLIAM 57 

•WHITNEY,  FREDERIC  AUGUSTUS 86 

WlGGLESWORTH,  THOMAS 141 

WYMAN,  MORRILL 141 

•WYMAN,  JEFFRIES 60 

•YOUNG,  RICHARD  SHARPE 80 


NECROLOGY. 


JOHN  CLARKE  ALLEN. 

Died  at  North  Andover,  Mass June  24,  1834. 

HUNTINGTON   PORTER. 
Died  at  Rainsford  Island,  Boston  Harbor     .     .     June  21,  1836. 

JOSEPH  WHITE. 

Died  at  the  McLean  Asylum,  Somerville,  Mass.     July    I,    1838. 

THOMAS  ROTCH  BOURNE. 

Died  at  Sandwich,  Mass Oct.  27,  1839. 

ISAAC  PURNELL  PENDLETON. 

Died  at  Caroline  Co.,  Eastern  Shore,  Md.    .     .     Sept.        1840. 

FISHER  AMES  HARDING. 

Died  at  Detroit,  Mich Aug.  4,    1846. 

CHARLES  JARVIS  BATES. 

Died  at  Salmadina,  Gulf  of  Mexico     ....     Aug.  26,  1847. 

JOSEPH  HARRINGTON. 

Died  at  San  Francisco,  Cal Nov.   2,   1852. 

CHARLES  HENRY  PEIRCE. 

Died  at  Cambridge,  Mass June  16,  1855. 


12          THE  CLASS  OF  1833. 
FREDERIC  PARKER. 

Died  at  Lowell,  Mass Jan.   29,   1857. 

THOMAS  BUTLER  POPE. 

Died  at  Roxbury,  Mass Jan.   15,  1862. 

FLETCHER  WEBSTER. 

Killed  at   Second  Battle  of  Bull  Run,  Prince 

William  Co.,  Va.     .     .     .  * Aug.  30,  1862. 

MOSES  KELLY. 

Died  at  Cleveland,  O Aug.  15,  1870. 

THOMAS  BOLTON. 

Died  at  Cleveland,  O Feb.    i,   1871. 

CHARLES  JACKSON. 

Died  at  Boston,  Mass July  30,   1871. 

HENRY  YANCEY  GRAY. 

Died  at  Charleston,  S.C July    4,    1872. 

WILLIAM  WHITING. 

Died  at  Roxbury,  Mass June  29,  1873. 

JEFFRIES  WYMAN. 

Died  at  Bethlehem,  N.H Sept.  4,  1874. 

WILLIAM  DEHON. 

Died  at  Boston,  Mass May  20,  1875. 

JOHN  OSGOOD  STONE. 

Died  aft  New  York,  N.Y.  .     .     , June   7,    1876. 

JOSIAH   RUTTER. 
Died  at  Waltham,  Mass .     Sept.  3,  1876. 


NECROLOGY.  13 

DAVID  STODDARD  GREENOUGH. 

Died  at  Jamaica  Plain,  Mass March  30,  1877. 

GEORGE  EATON. 

Died  at  Grantville,  Mass May   7,    1877. 

RICHARD  SHARPE  YOUNG. 

Died  at  San  Francisco,  Cal Aug.  9,    1877. 

CHRISTOPHER  MINOT  WELD. 

Died  at  Jamaica  Plain,  Mass March  14,  1878. 

ANDREW  FOSTER. 

Died  at  Brooklyn,  N.Y Sept.  22,  1879. 

WILLIAM  PORTER  JARVIS. 

Died  at  Roxbury,  Mass May  29,  1880. 

FREDERIC  AUGUSTUS  WHITNEY. 

Died  at  Brighton,  Mass Oct.  21,  1880. 

RUFUS   C.   TORREY. 
Died  at  Claiborne,  Ala Sept.  13,  1882. 

JOHN  CHESTER  LYMAN. 

Died  at  Doylestown,  Pa Feb.  27,  1883. 

3° 


MEMOIRS   OF   THE    DECEASED. 


MEMOIRS  OF  THE  DECEASED. 


JOHN   CLARKE   ALLEN.1 

JOHN  CLARKE  ALLEN  was  the  son  of  Rev.  Wilkes 
(H.  C.  1801)  and  Mary  (Morrill)  Allen,  and  was  born 
in  Chelmsford,  Mass.,  November  15,  1812.  His  father  was 
for  a  long  time  minister  in  that  town,  and  occupied  a  promi- 
nent place  among  the  clergy  of  that  part  of  the  State.  His 
mother  was  the  daughter  of  Mr.  James  Morrill,  for  forty 
years  deacon  of  the  First  Church  in  Boston,  and  a  respected 
and  successful  merchant  in  that  city.  He  was  fitted  for  col- 
lege in  his  native  village,  principally  at  the  academy,  then 
under  the  charge  of  Cranmore  Wallace.  During  his  college 
life,  he  evinced  a  very  genial  and  social  temper.  In  his 
autobiography  in  the  Class  Book,  he  speaks  of  himself  as 
having  been  chiefly  interested,  when  a  boy,  in  books  on 
medicine.  In  college  he  early  formed  the  intention  of  being 
a  physician,  and  his  family  represent  him  as  resolved  to 
devote  himself  to  surgery. 

From  a  near  relative  the  Secretary  has  the  following  account 
of  his  last  sickness :  —  "  His  early  death  was  occasioned  by 
a  sprain  of  one  ankle  a  few  months  before  graduation.  With 
his  class,  however,  he  received  his  degree ;  but  this  effort 

1  This  memoir,  and  that  of  all  those  who  died  before  1858,  were  prepared 
for  the  "  silver  wedding  "  of  the  class  in  that  year.  They  arc  here  reprinted 
without  material  alterations. 

3 


1 8  THE   CLASS    OF    1833. 

increased  his  lameness,  and  proved  to  be  his  last  appearance 
in  public.  The  injury  to  the  ankle  soon  induced  a  develop- 
ment of  scrofula,  which  ended  his  days.  After  passing  a 
few  months  at  his  father's  house,  then  in  Cambridge,  under 
the  care  of  the  best  surgeons  of  this  vicinity,  he  went  to  the 
Massachusetts  General  Hospital,  where  he  spent  the  winter  of 
1833-34;  from  the  hospital,  in  March,  he  went  to  the  South, 
and  spent  three  months  in  Charleston,  S.  C.,  in  the  hope  that 
change  of  air  might  benefit  his  disease.  But  in  spite  of  this 
change,  and  the  assiduous  care  of  friends,  the  disease  went 
on  increasing  in  severity.  In  May  he  returned  to  his  father's 
house,  then  in  North  Andover,  and  there  cheerfully  gave  up 
all  idea  of  recovery  and  of  accomplishing  his  plan  of  life, 
laughing  at  pain,  patiently  enduring  suffering,  expressing  his 
firm  belief  in  the  Christian  religion,  and  embracing  its  com- 
forts and  hopes.  He  was  gradually  cut  off  from  the  outward 
world,  by  the  loss  of  hearing  and  sight,  and  at  last,  on  June  24, 
1834,  he  died." 

At  a  meeting  of  the  class,  held  on  the  succeeding  com- 
mencement, on  motion  of  Mr.  Fletcher  Webster,  it  was 

"  Voted,  That  suitable  notice  be  taken  of  the  lamented 
death  of  our  late  classmate,  John  C.  Allen ;  and  that  a  com- 
mittee of  one  be  appointed  for  this  purpose,  to  address  a 
letter  to  the  parents  of  the  deceased,  expressive  of  our 
esteem  for  our  late  associate,  and  of  our  sorrow  at  his  un- 
timely end." 

Mr.  E.  J.  Stearns  was  appointed  on  this  committee.  It  is 
understood  that  the  duty  assigned  him  was  duly  performed, 
and  that  he  received  a  suitable  acknowledgment. 


HUNTINGTON    PORTER.  19 


HUNTINGTON   PORTER. 

HUNTINGTON  PORTER  was  the  son  of  the  Rev. 
Huntington  (H.  C.  1777)  and  Sarah  (Moulton) 
Porter,  and  was  born  in  Rye,  N.  H.,  December  4,  1812, 
where  his  father  was  minister.  His  mother  was  the  daughter 
of  General  Jonathan  Moulton,  of  Hampton,  N.  H.  He  was 
a  nephew  of  the  Rev.  Eliphalet  Porter  (H.  C.  1777),  for  a 
long  time  minister  of  the  First  Church  in  Roxbury,  and  a 
member  of  the  Corporation  of  Harvard  College  from  1818 
to  1833.  He  went  to  school  in  the  academy  at  Greenland, 
N.  H.,  and  was  fitted  for  college  at  Exeter. 

After  leaving  college  he  went  to  his  home  in  Rye,  N.  H., 
and  spent  the  next  winter  in  fitting  two  younger  brothers  for 
college.  In  May,  1834,  he  left  home  to  seek  occupation  as 
a  teacher,  and  was  employed  in  that  capacity  successively  in 
Philadelphia,  in  Pittsburg,  and  in  Lexington,  Ky.  Soon  after 
going  to  the  last-named  place,  in  the  spring  of  1835,  he  began 
the  study  of  medicine  at  the  medical  school  connected  with 
the  Transylvania  University.  During  his  residence  in  Lex- 
ington he  joined  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  that  place. 
After  staying  there  a  year,  in  the  latter  part  of  May,  1836, 
he  returned  to  New  England,  to  visit  his  family  and  friends. 
A  few  days  after  his  arrival  he  was  taken  sick  with  small- 
pox, to  which  he  had  been  exposed  on  his  journey.  He 
was  removed  to  the  small-pox  hospital  on  Rainsford  Island, 
Boston  Harbor,  and  died  there  June  21,  1836.  His  remains 
were  deposited  in  the  burial-ground  of  the  island. 

At  the  class  meeting,  on  the  subsequent  commencement, 
it  was 

"  Voted,  That  some  notice  of  the  recent  demise  of  a 
classmate,  Huntington  Porter,  is  right  and  proper,  and  that 
a  committee  of  one  be  appointed  to  address  the  father  of 


2O  THE   CLASS   OF   1833. 

the  deceased  in  a  manner  expressive  of  the  esteem  of  the 
class  for  their  late  friend,  and  of  their  sympathy  with  his 
bereaved  relatives." 

Waldo  Higginson  was  appointed  on  this  committee;  and 
in  accordance  with  this  vote  wrote  to  the  Rev.  Huntington 
Porter,  at  Rye,  N.  H.,  and  received  from  him  a  reply  which 
contains  the  following :  —  "It  was  my  privilege  to  be  with 
my  son  a  considerable  part  of  his  very  distressing  sickness ; 
and  it  was  surprising  to  me  to  notice  the  patience,  fortitude, 
composure,  and  resignation  he  manifested  under  it;  and  it 
was  to  me  no  small  support  to  witness  the  evidence  given 
in  this  and  other  ways,  of  his  being  prepared  for  the  solemn 
event  he  saw  before  him." 


JOSEPH   WHITE. 

JOSEPH  WHITE  was  the  son  of  Stephen  and  Harriet 
(Story)  White,  and  was  born  at  Salem,  January  24,  1814. 
His  mother  was  a  sister  of  Judge  Story.  He  was  prepared 
for  college  chiefly  at  the  Round  Hill  School,  Northampton. 
After  leaving  college,  he  studied  no  profession,  but  assisted 
his  father,  who  was  engaged  in  lumbering  on  Grand  Island 
in  the  St.  Lawrence,  where  he  owned  valuable  tracts,  and  in 
ship-building  at  East  Boston. 

He  died  at  the  McLean  Asylum,  in  Somerville,  on  the 
morning  of  July  I,  1838. 


THOMAS  ROTCH  BOURNE.  21 


THOMAS   ROTCH   BOURNE. 

THOMAS  ROTCH  BOURNE  was  the  son  of  Melatiah 
and  Mary  (Fearing)  Bourne,  and  was  born  at  Sandwich, 
Mass.,  January  6,  1811.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of 
Brigadier-General  Israel  Fearing,  a  major  in  the  Revolutionary 
War.  He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Sandwich  Academy. 
At  Cambridge  he  was  modest,  retiring,  and  reserved,  although 
he  filled  with  credit  the  post  of  President  of  the  "  Med.  Fac." 
In  person  he  was  thought  a  model  of  manly  beauty.  He 
died  at  Sandwich,  October  27,  1839.  A  notice  of  his  career 
and  character,  written  by  Mr.  Thomas  B.  Pope,  appeared 
in  the  Boston  Daily  Advertiser  a  few  days  after  his  death, 
from  which  the  following  is  extracted. 

"  Mr.  Bourne  shortly  after  graduating  commenced  the  study 
of  the  law,  and  having  spent  three  years  at  the  Law  School 
in  Cambridge,  and  in  the  offices  of  the  Hon.  H.  Vanderpoel 
of  New  York  and  of  the  Hon.  John  Reed  of  Massachusetts, 
was,  upon  examination,  admitted  to  practise  in  the  courts 
of  the  latter  State.  Already  had  his  zeal  and  industry  as 
a  student  secured  for  him  the  esteem  and  respect  of  the 
gentlemen  with  whom  his  studies  were  prosecuted.  With 
a  just  confidence  in  his  powers,  with  the  knowledge  that  a 
faithful  apprenticeship  in  the  profession  of  his  choice  gave 
him  at  least  a  fair  chance  of  success,  and  buoyed  up  with 
a  proud  and  manly  spirit,  he  sought  independence  and  a 
home  in  the  West,  and  established  himself  at  Mt.  Clemens, 
Michigan,  as  a  lawyer  and  editor  of  one  of  the  journals  of 
Macomb  County.  He  was  prospering  in  his  profession,  was 
winning  his  way  to  the  favor  of  his  new  townsmen,  and 
already  had  their  elective  voice  placed  him  in  public  stations 
of  honorable  advancement.  When,  little  more  than  a  year 
after  he  was  first  numbered  among  them,  fever  and  ague 


22  THE  CLASS    OF   1833. 

seized  upon  him,  his  frame  became  prostrated,  and  he  fell 
a  victim  to  rapid  pulmonary  consumption.  Having  returned 
to  the  home  of  his  father,  during  the  past  summer,  in  high 
hopes  of  recovering  his  health,  it  soon  became  apparent 
to  his  friends  that  the  insidious  disease  was  rapidly  doing 
the  work  of  destruction ;  and  as  the  season  slipped  onward, 
they  foresaw  his  dissolution  could  not  long  be  deferred. 
For  several  weeks  he  had  himself  been  aware  that  his  way 
was  plain,  and  led  rapidly  to  the  grave.  Calmly  and  tran- 
quilly resigned  in  his  sufferings,  and  in  the  Christian  hope 
of  a  happy  hereafter,  he  sunk  into  death." 


ISAAC  PURNELL  PENDLETON. 

ISAAC  PURNELL  PENDLETON  was  the  son  of  Edmund 
and  Serena  (Purnell)  Pendleton,  and  was  born  in  the 
city  of  Baltimore,  on  the  :6th  of  August,  1813.  Shortly 
after  his  birth,  his  parents  removed  to  the  Eastern  Shore  of 
Maryland,  where  his  father  died  when  he  was  ten  years  old. 
He  was  then  placed  in  the  family  of  his  uncle,  Philip  C. 
Pendleton,  where  he  lived  till  he  came  to  Cambridge,  in 
1829.  During  the  last  half  of  the  freshman  year  he  was 
rusticated  by  the  Faculty,  and  spent  that  time  in  the  family 
of  Rev.  Mr.  Ripley  at  Waltham,  where  he  enjoyed  the  society 
and  instruction  of  Mrs.  Ripley,  whom  so  many,  and  none 
more  than  he,  have  greatly  venerated.  He  also  passed  the 
first  half  of  the  senior  year  at  his  home  in  Maryland.  He 
was  the  handsome  man  of  the  class,  and  was  naturally  selected 
as  the  captain  of  the  Harvard  Washington  Corps,  — the  duties 
of  which  office  he  performed  with  dignity  and  grace,  not 
unbecoming  the  successor  of  Robert  C.  Winthrop,  and  the 
predecessor  of  Governor  Williams  of  Maine.  Though  taking 


ISAAC   PURNELL   PENDLETON.  23 

no  rank  as  a  scholar,  he  yet  gave  evidence  of  respectable 
abilities  and  a  character  which  had  much  that  was  attractive 
and  interesting.  After  leaving  college,  he  resided  with  his 
aunt,  Miss  Purnell,  in  Caroline  County,  Eastern  Shore  of 
Maryland.  Afterwards  he  spent  some  years  in  Martinsburg 
and  in  Winchester,  Va.  He  returned  to  his  aunt's  residence 
in  1840,  and  died  there  of  congestive  fever  in  September  of 
that  year. 

A  friend  who  knew  him  well  at  Cambridge,  and  subse- 
quently, writes  thus :  — 

"  The  incidents  of  his  life  after  leaving  college  were  hardly 
such  as  friends  desire  to  record.  He  had  quite  a  comfortable 
patrimony,  which  he  squandered  in  dissipation,  although  he 
never  was  reduced  to  actual  want.  But  it  must  be  mentioned, 
that  he  seemed  to  have  reformed  a  short  time  before  his  ill- 
ness, and  his  friends  entertained  for  him  hopes  that  he  might 
become  a  useful  man. 

"  When  under  the  influence  of  liquor,  he  seemed  to  have 
a  wild  ferocity  of  disposition ;  but  when  sober,  he  was  a 
gentleman  in  his  whole  deportment,  and  showed  great  kind- 
ness of  heart  and  many  noble  qualities.  Indeed,  he  had  a 
number  of  very  warm  friends,  who  did  all  they  could  to 
rescue  him  from  the  habits  which  tyrannized  over  him." 

Hon.  John  Bozman  Kerr  (H.  C.  1830),  who  was  a  neigh- 
bor of  Pendleton  in  Maryland,  has  also  written  of  the  refor- 
mation spoken  of  above.  It  took  place  in  the  summer  of 
1840,  on  his  return  to  his  home  on  the  Eastern  Shore  of 
Maryland.  For  some  months  during  this  season  he  was 
temperate  and  devoted  to  his  books,  and  was  preparing  for 
practice  as  a  lawyer,  for  which  profession  he  had  never  com- 
pleted his  studies.  But  early  in  the  autumn  he  was  seized 
with  fever,  (to  which  his  previous  habits  rendered  him  an 
easy  victim,)  and  died  at  the  age  of  twenty-seven. 


24  THE   CLASS   OF    1833. 


FISHER  AMES   HARDING. 

FISHER  AMES  HARDING  was  the  son  of  John  and 
Julia  (Battelle)  Harding,  and  was  born  in  Dover, 
Mass.,  January  23,  1811.  His  father  was  a  farmer  in  that 
town.  Having  a  great  veneration  for  Fisher  Ames,  in  whose 
household  he  had  formerly  lived  for  several  years  as  a  hired 
man,  he  named  his  son  for  that  distinguished  statesman.  In 
the  village  school,  Harding  was  soon  distinguished  as  a  boy 
of  quick  comprehension  and  great  desire  for  knowledge ;  and 
he  early  indulged  a  longing  for  a  collegiate  education.  After 
procuring  his  parents'  consent  to  do  all  they  could  towards 
sending  him  to  college,  he  sought  the  advice  of  Rev.  Ralph 
Sanger  (H.  C.  1808),  who  was  fortunately  settled  at  the  time 
over  the  church  in  Dover.  By  his  advice  and  assistance,  he 
was  fitted  for  college,  and  joined  the  class  at  the  beginning 
of  the  freshman  year. 

In  college  he  was  distinguished,  not  only  for  the  observance 
of  college  rules,  but  also  for  scholarship,  easily  obtaining  and 
keeping  a  rank  within  the  first  eight.  He  was  respected  and 
beloved  by  all,  and  passed  through  the  four  years  with  the 
reputation  of  being  singularly  guileless. 

In  his  senior  year  he  had  the  advantage  of  frequent  inter- 
course with  Daniel  Webster,  whose  son  was  his  room-mate. 
He  had  designed,  after  graduating,  to  keep  school,  until  he 
should  have  provided  means  for  studying  his  profession, 
which  he  resolved  should  be  the  law.  But  a  short  time 
before  leaving  college,  Mr.  Webster  made  the  generous  offer 
of  taking  him  into  his  office  as  a  law-student,  and  supporting 
him  handsomely  whilst  there.  This  proposal,  so  honorable 
to  Harding,  was  substantially  accepted,  though  some  of  its 
liberality  was  modestly  declined ;  and  he  spent  the  two  years 
after  graduating  in  Mr.  Webster's  office  in  Boston. 


FISHER   AMES   HARDING.  25 

In  1835,  ne  went  to  Chicago,  and  opened  an  office  in  con- 
nection with  Henry  Moore,  Esq.,  who  had  also  come  from 
Massachusetts.  In  1837,  he  removed  to  Detroit,  and  lived 
there  during  the  rest  of  his  life.  He  immediately  formed 
a  partnership  with  Mr.  Fletcher  Webster,  which  continued 
but  a  short  time,  in  consequence  of  the  latter's  removal 
to  Illinois.  Afterwards  he  formed  a  connection  with  Mr. 
William  Hale,  now  of  Detroit,  which  continued  till  his  own 
death. 

In  1841  he  was  elected  from  his  county  to  the  State  legis- 
lature. He  had  always  taken  an  interest  in  public  affairs, 
which  was  early  instilled  by  his  father's  admiration  of  Fisher 
Ames  and  recollection  of  his  conversation,  and  subsequently 
increased  by  his  own  intercourse  with  Daniel  Webster.  His 
sister  writes :  "  Politics  was  the  dream  of  his  boyhood,  and 
the  engrossing  subject  that  absorbed  his  after  life."  The 
conspicuous  part  he  took  in  the  proceedings  of  the  Michigan 
House  of  Representatives  attested  that  his  early  advantages 
had  been  wisely  improved. 

In  1841,  also,  he  became  associated  with  Mr.  Morgan  Bates 
in  the  editorship  of  the  Detroit  Daily  Advertiser,  then  an  able 
Whig  journal,  and  he  continued  in  this  connection,  except  for 
about  a  year's  interval,  during  the  remainder  of  his  life. 

He  was  never  married,  and  died  of  consumption,  in  Detroit, 
August  4,  1846,  aged  thirty-five. 

In  the  columns  of  the  Advertiser,  of  August  6,  appeared 
the  following :  — 

"DEATH  OF  MR.   HARDING, 

"It  is  our  painful  duty  to  announce  the  death  of  Fisher 
Ames  Harding,  Esq.,  one  of  the  editors  of  this  paper.  He 
died  at  the  residence  of  William  Hale,  Esq.,  of  this  city, 
on  Tuesday  evening  at  three  o'clock.  His  health  had  been 
feeble  for  nearly  two  years,  but  did  not  assume  an  alarming 

4 


26  THE   CLASS   OF  1833. 

character  until  within  the  past  two  weeks.  The  last  week 
of  his  life  was  one  of  mental  delirium,  and  of  great  apparent 
physical  suffering." 

Here  follows  a  brief  account  of  his  life,  which  is  the  same 
as  that  given  above. 

"  In  the  profession  of  the  law,  Mr.  Harding  was  known 
as  a  thorough  student  and  an  upright  counsellor,  but  his 
natural  taste  disqualified  him  for  the  turmoil  and  strife  of 
professional  life.  He  loved  the  shade  of  retiracy,  and  it 
was  here,  with  the  friends  who  saw  him  daily,  that  the  dig- 
nity and  purity  of  his  character,  the  brilliancy  of  his  talents, 
and  the  extent  of  his  acquirements,  commanded  their  admi- 
ration, while  'a  daily  beauty  in  his  life'  won  their  love  and 
esteem.  We  dare  not  trust  ourselves,  under  the  feeling  of 
the  moment,  to  speak  of  our  late  friend  and  associate  as  we 
feel;  we  shall  not  exaggerate,  however,  when  we  say  that 
his  generous  nature,  his  remarkable  freedom  from  selfish 
feelings  and  conduct,  and  his  native  modesty,  were  acknowl- 
edged by,  and  won  the  respect  of,  even  casual  acquaintances. 
Though  warmly  attached  to  a  political  party,  it  disturbed 
not  his  social  relations,  and  his  political  writings  were  not 
more  distinguished  by  their  purity  and  simplicity  of  style, 
than  by  their  fairness  and  courtesy  to  his  political  opponents. 
He  passed  through  the  political  agitations  of  the  past  few 
years  an  active  participant,  but  we  believe  without  incur- 
ring the  personal  animosity  of  any  one,  and  he  died  without 
an  enemy. 

"  To  say  that  the  death  of  such  a  man,  of  so  much  talent, 
of  so  much  information,  of  so  much  goodness  of  heart,  is  a 
great  loss  to  the  community,  would  be  to  use  a  trite  phrase 
to  express  a  solemn  feeling.  To  us  personally,  the  loss  of 
one  from  whom,  after  years  of  daily  intercourse,  we  can 
recall  not  one  instance  of  unkind  or  angry  feeling  or  word, 
whose  sound  judgment,  extensive  knowledge,  and  social 
qualities  we  have  had  occasion  daily  to  admire,  is  indeed 


CHARLES   JARVIS   BATES.  27 

irreparable.     We  may  be  permitted  to  grieve  over  his  pre- 
mature grave ;  for  we  feel 

'  'T  is  manliness 
To  be  heart-broken  here, 
For  the  grave  of  earth's  best  nobleness 
Is  watered  by  a  tear.'  " 

In  the  same  paper,  of  August  6,  appeared  a  call  for  a 
meeting  of  the  members  of  the  bar,  at  the  United  States 
Court-Room,  and  also  for  a  meeting  of  the  "Detroit  Young 
Men's  Society,"  at  their  rooms,  to  make  arrangements  for 
the  funeral,  which  took  place  on  that  day  from  the  house  of 
Mr.  Hale. 


CHARLES  JARVIS   BATES. 

/CHARLES  JARVIS  BATES  was  the  son  of  George 
^-"/  and  Elizabeth  (Hall)  Bates,  and  was  born  in  Suffolk 
Place,  Boston,  November  24,  1813.  His  father  took  the 
degree  of  M.  D.  at  Harvard  College,  1813,  but  early  relin- 
quished practice.  His  mother  was  nearly  connected  with 
Governor  Brooks  and  Judge  Joseph  Hall  and  Chief  Justice 
Parker.  She  died  in  1821.  He  went  to  a  private  school  in 
Charlestown,  kept  by  Mr.  Gates,  until  in  1826  he  entered 
the  Boston  Latin  School,  where  he  was  fitted  for  college. 
He  inherited  from  his  mother  a  feeble  constitution,  was 
sickly  as  a  boy,  and  his  college  studies  were  often  inter- 
rupted by  dyspepsia;  nevertheless,  he  took  a  respectable 
rank  as  a  scholar,  and  was  exemplary  in  the  performance 
of  all  his  duties.  His  highest  rank,  however,  was  in  the 
hearts  of  his  classmates.  He  was  not  only  generally  beloved, 
but  great  confidence  was  felt  in  the  firmness  of  his  principles 
of  truth  and  honor. 


28  THE   CLASS    OF   1833. 

After  leaving  college  he  devoted  himself  immediately  to 
the  study  of  medicine,  entering  the  office  of  Dr.  William 
J.  Walker,  then  living  in  Charlestown,  in  company  with 
John  O.  Stone  and  Morrill  Wyman.  In  1836  he  received 
the  degree  of  M.  D.  He  subsequently  attended  a  course 
of  medical  lectures  at  the  Pennsylvania  University,  Phila- 
delphia, but  did  not  take  a  degree.  In  March,  1838,  he 
received  permission  to  present  himself  before  the  Board  of 
Naval  Surgeons,  and  being  successful  was  appointed  Assist- 
ant Surgeon.  On  examination  by  another  board,  in  May, 
1845,  he  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Passed  Assistant  Sur- 
geon, to  date  back  to  November,  1843,  on  account  of  absence 
from  the  country  when  others  of  his  own  standing  had  been 
promoted. 

The  following  is  taken  from  a  letter  of  his  to  the  class 
secretary,  dated  "  U.  S.  Ship  North  Carolina,  March  29, 
1846":- 

"  My  naval  experiences  have  been  considerable.  I  have 
been  six  and  a  half  years  at  sea  out  of  eight.  Nearly  three 
and  a  half  I  spent  in  the  Mediterranean,  and  consider  them 
to  be  the  happiest  of  my  life.  I  passed  two  years  on  the 
west  coast  of  Africa,  and  these  were  perhaps  the  most  un- 
thankful of  all.  The  rest  of  my  sea  life  was  on  our  own 
coast.  I  am  much  attached  to  the  service ;  with  all  its 
d&agrhnmSt  there  is  much  good  in  it.  I  prefer  my  asso- 
ciates to  those  of  the  shore;  for  I  think  I  find  more  true 
friendship,  —  its  candor,  its  warmth,  its  generosity,  its  feel- 
ing always  undisguised.  The  navy  officer  has  perhaps  an 
advantage  over  the  civilian  in  the  choice  of  a  friend,  for 
he  knows  by  reputation  every  other  in  the  service,  —  the 
black  mark  always  goes  with  its  victim,  and  he  can 
therefore  choose  with  safety,  or  rather  he  can  avoid  with 
certainty." 

At  the  time  of  his  death  the  Rev.  George  E.  Ellis  was 
much  with  his  father's  family.  In  a  letter  dated  Charles- 


CHARLES   JARVIS   BATES.  29 

town,  August  29,   1848,  he  gives  the  following   information 
about  his  life  in  the  navy,  and  his  death :  — 

"  He  used  the  opportunities  which  offered  when  on  service 
in  our  ships,  to  travel  in  Italy  and  other  countries.  His  in- 
terest in  his  profession  was  great,  and  he  cultivated  a  taste 
for  some  of  the  departments  of  natural  science.  I  have 
occasionally  met  with  his  companions  in  the  public  service, 
and  with  his  acquaintances  of  the  last  few  years;  and  a 
fortnight  ago  I  met  in  New  York  Dr.  Wright  of  the  navy, 
who  saw  Dr.  Bates  shortly  before  his  death.  All  concur  in 
commending  his  quiet  virtues,  his  amiability,  and  his  profes- 
sional faithfulness.  In  a  season  of  prevailing  and  danger- 
ous sickness  in  our  squadron  in  the  Gulf  of  Mexico,  he 
devoted  himself  with  entire  self-forgetfulness  to  his  duties, 
and  assumed  from  sympathy  and  zeal  those  which  primarily 
belonged  to  others.  I  understand  that  all  the  other  medical 
gentlemen  who  were  with  him  were  prostrated  with  disease, 
or  not  immediately  at  hand,  when  he  himself  was  seized, 
after  most  exhausting  occupation,  with  the  suffering.  He 
died  at  a  temporary  hospital  (on  land)  at  Salmadina,  Gulf 
of  Mexico,  August  26,  1847.  His  remains  were  brought 
home,  a  funeral  service  was  held  in  the  chapel  of  Mount 
Auburn,  by  his  pastor,  Rev.  Mr.  Lothrop,  of  Boston,  and 
they  are  deposited  under  the  monument  erected  to  him  in 
that  cemetery." 

It  is  worthy  of  mention,  that,  at  the  time  of  the  sick- 
ness spoken  of  in  this  letter,  Dr.  Bates  Jiad  received  from 
Washington  leave  of  absence.  But,  at  Commodore  Perry's 
request,  he  postponed  using  it,  out  of  regard  to  the  ex- 
igencies of  others,  and  his  own  sense  of  duty,  and  thus 
fell  a  victim  to  the  prevailing  disease,  which  was  yellow- 
fever. 

The  monument  alluded  to  above  is  a  handsome  white- 
marble  sarcophagus,  and  bears  the  following  epitaph,  writ- 
ten by  Mr.  Ellis :  — 


3O  THE   CLASS    OF    1833. 


"CHARLES  JARVIS   BATES, 

Born  in  Boston,  Nov.  24,  1813,  Graduated  at  Harvard  University,  1833, 

Served  as  Past  Assistant  Surgeon  in  the  United  States  Navy, 
Died  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties,  at  Salmadina,  Gulf  of  Mexico,  Aug.  26,  1847. 

Beloved  by  the  Inmates  of  his  Home,  for  his  filial  and  fraternal  virtues, 

Esteemed  by  his  Companions,  for  the  Purity  of  his  Youth  and  Manhood, 

His  early  death  is  deplored  by  those  who  shared  with  him 

the  Duties  and  the  Perils 

Of  Professional  Service,  and  who  bear  a  united  testimony  to  his 
Devotion  and  Fidelity." 

On  one  end  of  the  monument  a  coat  of  arms  is  cut,  with 
the  motto,  so  appropriate  in  this  case,— 

Et  manu  et  corde. 


JOSEPH   HARRINGTON,  JR. 

JOSEPH  HARRINGTON,  JR.  was  the  son  of  Joseph  and 
j  Mary  (Smith)  Harrington,  and  was  born  in  Roxbury, 
February  21,  1813.  His  father  was  a  lawyer,  who  practised 
in  the  counties  of  both  Norfolk  and  Suffolk.  His  mother 
was  the  daughter  of  Mr.  Ralph  Smith,  of  Roxbury,  at  one 
time  a  noted  politician  of  the  Democratic  school.  After 
the  ordinary  preliminary  training  in  his  native  town,  he  went 
to  Exeter  Academy,  and  passed  two  years  there,  previous 
to  entering  college.  In  the  Class  Book  he  pays  a  tribute  to 
Dr.  Abbot,  of  Exeter,  and  to  Mr.  Edward  B.  Emerson,  who 
was  one  of  the  instructors  in  Roxbury.  In  college  he  main- 
tained a  respectable  rank  as  a  scholar,  and  graduated  among 
the  first  sixteen.  A  letter  from  him  to  the  secretary,  dated 
Hartford,  August  12,  1848,  describes  his  course  after  leaving 
college :  — 

"  Before  I  was  graduated,  I  had  entered  upon  my  duties  as 


JOSEPH    HARRINGTON,   JR.  31 

principal  of  Kent  Academy,  East  Greenwich,  Rhode  Island. 
I  continued  in  that  station  about  six  months,  when  I  made 
application  for  a  mastership  in  one  of  the  grammar  schools 
of  Boston.  I  was  successful ;  and  about  the  beginning  of 
the  year  1834  commenced  my  career  in  that  city  as  master 
of  the  Hawes  Grammar  School.  I  held  this  office  till  June, 
1839.  The  last  few  years  of  my  labors  as  an  instructor,  I 
was  also  pursuing  the  study  of  theology  with  Dr.  Putnam  of 
Roxbury.  I  preached  my  first  sermon  at  Fall  River,  the 
last  Sunday  in  June,  or  first  in  July,  1839.  In  the  following 
autumn  I  was  ordained  as  an  evangelist  in  the  Federal  Street 
Church,  Boston ;  and  about  the  beginning  of  October  started 
for  Chicago,  Illinois,  on  a  short  tour  of  missionary  duty.  My 
labors  there  were  unexepectedly  prospered.  My  position 
grew  more  and  more  interesting;  and  my  stay  there  was  pro- 
longed from  year  to  year,  until  the  summer  of  1844,  when  I 
dissolved  connection  with  the  society,  leaving  it  prosperous 
and  self-subsistent.  I  was  never  regularly  settled  over  the 
parish  in  Chicago.  While  there,  on  the  6th  day  of  April, 
1841,  I  married  Helen  Euphaine  Griswold,  then  recently 
from  Baltimore,  Maryland.  The  remainder  of  the  year  1844, 
and  the  whole  of  1845,  I  lived  with  my  family  at  Roxbury, 
Massachusetts.  During  the  year  1845  I  officiated  as  pastor 
of  the  Suffolk  Street  Chapel,  Boston.  The  first  Sunday  in 
January,  1846,  I  entered  upon  the  duties  of  a  new  parish  in 
Hartford,  Connecticut,  to  the  charge  of  which  I  had  been 
invited.  In  April  of  the  same  year  I  was  installed  as  pastor 
of  the  society.  I  have  had  three  children ;  —  one,  an  infant 
son,  was  buried  at  Chicago;  another  at  Roxbury.  Our 
eldest,  a  daughter,  is  living,  at  this  date,  about  six  and  a 
half  years  of  age." 

Mr.  Harrington  remained  in  Hartford  until  the  summer 
of  1852,  and  then  accepted  a  call  to  take  charge  of  the 
Unitarian  Church  at  San  Francisco,  California.  He  sailed 
from  New  York  on  the  2Oth  of  July,  and  reached  San  Fran- 


32  THE   CLASS    OF    1833. 

cisco  on  the  2/th  of  August,  after  a  fatiguing  and  suffering 
trip.  He  began,  however,  under  bright  auspices,  and  his 
church  during  the  three  Sundays  on  which  he  preached 
was  thronged  by  hearers.  But  he  was  soon  prostrated  by 
illness.  He  had  been  indisposed  from  May  of  that  year, — 
probably  because  of  the  excessive  labors  of  the  few  preced- 
ing months.  This  indisposition  was  much  aggravated  by 
the  exertion  and  excitement  incident  to  his  removal.  The 
disease  which  now  attacked  him  was  pronounced  Panama 
fever.  He  was  taken  sick  early  in  October,  and  died  Novem- 
ber 2,  1852,  at  the  age  of  thirty-nine. 

He  was  much  respected  in  his  various  homes  after  leaving 
college,  —  South  Boston,  Chicago,  Hartford,  and  San  Fran- 
cisco, —  and  died  regretted  by  a  wide  circle. 

Such  are  the  outlines  of  his  successful  life.  They  have 
been  wrought  into  an  interesting  memoir  by  his  classmate, 
William  Whiting,  which  is  prefixed  to  a  small  volume  of  his 
sermons,  published  by  Crosby  and  Nichols,  (Boston,  1854,) 
to  which  the  class  are  referred.  This  volume  contains  also 
a  good  likeness. 

After  Mr.  Harrington's  death,  the  church  at  St.  Francisco 
raised  a  fund  for  his  widow  and  daughter.  This,  supple- 
mented by  lessons  in  music,  in  which  Mrs.  Harrington  was  a 
proficient,  supported  them  comfortably, — particularly  as  the 
daughter,  on  growing  up,  became  herself  an  accomplished 
music-teacher.  So  they  lived  in  Roxbury,  Mass.,  the  home 
of  the  Harrington  family;  in  Baltimore,  where  they  were  in 
1858;  and  in  Chicago.  From  the  last-named  place  they 
moved  to  New  York  and  made  their  home  in  Haerlem.  Here 
Mrs.  Harrington  died,  about  ten  years  ago.  A  year  or  two 
after,  the  daughter,  Helen  Josephine,  married  Mr.  Joseph 
Gandolfo,  a  New  York  gentleman  of  ample  means.  They 
have  three  children. 


CHARLES    HENRY   PEIRCE.  33 


CHARLES   HENRY   PEIRCE. 

/CHARLES  HENRY  PIERCE  was  the  son  of  Benjamin 
^/  (H.  C.  1801)  and  Lydia  Ropes  (Nichols)  Peirce,  and 
was  born  in  Salem,  January  28,  1814.  His  father  was  Col- 
lege Librarian,  1826-31.  The  great  mathematician,  who 
graduated  four  years  before,  was  his  elder  brother. 

In  boyhood  he  was  amiable  and  affectionate,  and  remark- 
able for  his  conscientiousness,  love  of  truth,  and  disinterested 
generosity.  He  was  quiet  and  observing.  This  faculty  always 
remained  with  him,  and  was  of  great  use  in  his  professional 
studies  and  occupations. 

At  the  age  of  twelve,  he  went  to  Mr.  Putnam's  academy, 
in  Andover,  where  he  remained  a  year.  In  July,  1826,  he 
removed  with  his  parents  to  Cambridge.  In  August,  1828, 
he  entered  Exeter  Academy,  and  remained  there  a  year  also. 
In  the  Class  Book,  he  bore,  as  so  many  have  done,  a  grateful 
testimony  to  Dr.  Abbot,  the  honored  head  of  that  institution. 
When  nearly  fitted  for  college,  he  returned  to  Cambridge, 
and,  after  studying  a  few  months  with  Mr.  Timothy  Walker 
(H.  C.  1826),  entered  college  in  December,  1829. 

Here  he  was  marked  by  the  traits  which  had  distinguished 
his  boyhood.  He  was  popular  among  his  classmates,  and 
had  many  warm  friends. 

Immediately  after  graduating,  he  commenced  the  study 
of  medicine  with  Dr.  G.  C.  Shattuck,  and  continued  with 
him  for  three  years.  During  the  same  time  he  attended 
three  full  courses  of  lectures  at  the  Massachusetts  Medical 
College.  In  August,  1836,  he  took  the  usual  degrees,  and 
then  established  himself  at  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  as  a  physician. 
He  remained  there  only  until  the  beginning  of  1837,  and 
then  returned  to  Boston,  where  he  practised  until  June, 
1838.  Then  he  removed  to  Salem,  and  remained  there  as 

5 


34  THE   CLASS   OF    1833. 

a  medical  practitioner  until  the  middle  of  April,  1847,  when 
he  removed  to  Roxbury,  where  he  continued  to  practise 
until  the  middle  of  September  of  the  same  year. 

Dr.  Peirce  then  relinquished  medicine,  and  entered  the 
chemical  department  of  the  Lawrence  Scientific  School, 
under  Professor  Horsford,  and  remained  there  until  January 
12,  1849.  He  was  one  of  the  first  two  who  entered  this 
department. 

On  the  2  ist  of  August,  1850,  he  was  appointed  United 
States  Examiner  of  Drugs,  &c.  for  the  Port  of  Boston. 
He  discharged  the  duties  of  this  office  with  great  skill  and 
fidelity,  and  with  characteristic  fearlessness.  He  was  re- 
moved on  January  14,  1855. 

In  September,  1850,  he  superintended  the  translation  from 
the  German  of  Stockhardt's  "  Principles  of  Chemistry,"  pub- 
lished by  Mr.  John  Bartlett,  of  Cambridge.  This  work  was 
stereotyped,  and  had  a  very  large  sale.  The  German  author 
has  spoken  of  the  faithfulness  and  spirit  of  the  translation  in 
terms  of  the  highest  admiration. 

In  March,  1852,  he  prepared  a  work  entitled  "Examina- 
tions of  Drugs,  Medicines,  &c.,"  giving  some  of  the  results 
of  his  official  labors.  It  was  published  by  Mr.  Bartlett, 
whose  interest  was  subsequently  bought  by  Mr.  Henry  C. 
Baird,  of  Philadelphia.  This  book  was  much  prized,  both 
in  Europe  and  in  this  country,  and  commanded  a  large  sale 
for  a  work  of  the  kind. 

Dr.  Peirce  died  at  Cambridge,  after  a  long  and  painful 
illness,  June  16,  1855,  at  the  age  of  forty-one. 


FREDERIC   PARKER.  35 


FREDERIC   PARKER. 

F'REDERIC  PARKER  was  the  son  of  Joseph  and  Olive 
(Bailey)  Parker,  and  was  born  at  Carlisle,  Mass.,  Sep- 
tember 2,  1813.     He  was  fitted  for  college  at  schools  in  the 
adjoining  towns.     At  Cambridge  he  sustained  a  respectable 
rank  as  a  scholar,  and  manifested  energy  and  perseverance 
in  pursuing  means  of  improvement  not  prescribed  by  the 
Faculty.     After  graduating,  he  taught  school  in  Gloucester 
for  about  nine  months,  then  in  Billerica  for  two  years  and 
a  quarter,  and  lastly  in  Hallowell,  Maine,  for  one  year  and 
three   quarters.     Early  in    September,    1838,  he   began   the 
study  of  the   law  with    Hon.   Samuel   Wells,   of  Hallowell, 
subsequently  Judge  of  the  Supreme   Court  of  Maine.      In 
September,  1839,  he  entered  the  Law  School  at  Cambridge, 
where  he  completed  his  studies,  and  received  the  degree  of 
LL.  B.   in    1841.       He  then  established   himself  in   Lowell. 
After  spending  a  short  time  in  the  office  of  Joel  Adams, 
Esq.  (H.  C.  1805),  of  that  city,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar. 
In  October,   1844,  he  married  Miss  Harriet  M.  Kimball  of 
Lowell.     In  1845,  he  experienced  a  long  and  severe  illness, 
the  effects  of  which  never  left  him,  and  from  that  time  he 
was  forced  to  struggle  with  ill  health.     In  the  same  year, 
he  was  chosen  one  of  the  school  committee,  and  held  that 
office  during  four  successive  years.     The  cause  of  education 
always  interested  him,  and  during  his  term  of  office  he  sug- 
gested and  supported  several  important  changes  in  the  man- 
agement of  the   Lowell    schools.      In    1846  he  was  chosen 
clerk  of  the   Salem  and   Lowell   Railroad  Company,  which 
office  he  continued  to  fill  until  his  last  sickness.     In  1849 
he  was  instrumental  in  forming  the  Howard  Fire  Insurance 
Company,  of  which  for  several  years  he  was  secretary  and 
treasurer.     In    1852   he  opened  a  book  and   print  store  in 


36  THE   CLASS   OF    1833. 

Lowell,  and  soon  after  another  in  Boston.  The  former  was 
soon  closed,  and  he  devoted  his  energies  to  the  latter.  In 
this  employment  he  manifested  great  taste  and  enterprise. 
In  the  summer  of  1856,  his  business  in  Boston  became 
unsuccessful,  and  he  was  forced  to  abandon  it.  He  then 
retired  to  Lowell.  In  the  autumn  of  that  year,  he  had 
repeated  attacks  of  hemorrhage,  and  died  of  consumption, 
January  29,  1857. 

He  showed  through  life  the  grave  and  earnest  character 
he  displayed  in  college,  and  kept  up  to  an  unusual  degree 
the  literary  tastes  which  he  there  acquired.  He  encountered 
reverses,  but  maintained  through  them  all  energy  of  spirit 
and  unsullied  integrity. 

His  widow  continued  to  live  at  Lowell,  with  his  two  sur- 
viving children,  Charles  Edward,  born  in  1848,  and  Frederic 
Augustus,  born  in  1853.  After  the  lapse  of  some  time,  Mrs. 
Parker  married  Mr.  Sidney  Spalding,  of  Lowell,  a  gentleman 
of  wealth  and  liberality.  He  adopted  her  two  sons,  who  took 
his  name.  The  eldest,  Charles  Parker  Spalding,  graduated  at 
Harvard  in  1870,  and  took  the  degree  of  M.  D.  in  1877.  In 
1882,  he  went  abroad  and  studied  at  Paris  and  Vienna,  taking 
lip  the  eye  and  ear  as  a  specialty.  He  is  now  established  as 
a  physician  in  Lowell.  The  youngest,  Frederic  Parker  Spal- 
ding, graduated  at  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology, 
in  1878.  He  is  now  employed  in  the  City  Engineer's  office 
at  Boston.  In  June,  1881,  he  married  Miss  Alice  French,  of 
Lowell,  and  has  an  infant  daughter,  born  January  19,  1883. 


THOMAS   BUTLER   POPE.  37 


THOMAS   BUTLER   POPE. 

THOMAS  BUTLER  POPE  died  at  his  residence  in 
Appleton  Place,  Roxbury,  near  Longvvood,  January  15, 
1862,  aged  forty-eight  years  lacking  seven  days.  He  was  son 
of  Lemuel  and  Sally  Belknap  (Russell)  Pope,  and  was  born 
in  Boston,  January  22,  1814.  His  father  was  a  very  respect- 
able citizen,  for  many  years  President  of  the  Boston  Insur- 
ance Company.  His  mother  was  sister  to  the  late  Nathaniel 
Pope  Russell,  Esq.,  and  second-cousin  to  Rev.  Dr.  Jeremy 
Belknap.  He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Boston  Latin 
School,  and  entered  at  the  beginning  of  the  sophomore  year. 
After  graduating  he  enlered  the  Law  School  of  the  Univer- 
sity, and  subsequently  studied  in  the  office  of  Hon.  Charles 
Loring,  of  Boston.  In  the  summer  of  1836  he  was  admitted 
to  the  Suffolk  Bar,  and  began  to  practise.  In  1840  he  formed 
a  partnership  with  Charles  Henry  Parker  (H.  C.  1835),  which 
continued  until  1853,  and  then  terminated  on  that  gentleman 
becoming  Treasurer  of  the  Suffolk  Savings  Bank. 

Though  beginning  the  practice  of  law  under  good  auspices, 
and  in  some  ways  manifesting  proficiency,  he  was  tempted 
to  enter  into  speculations  quite  foreign  to  his  profession.  In 
this  he  simply  followed  the  example  of  many  other  lawyers. 
But  with  him  his  ventures  met  with  disaster,  and,  being  con- 
tinued, resulted  in  bankruptcy  of  fortune,  though  his  integ- 
rity was  unscathed.  His  affairs  were  so  much  embarrassed 
in  1858,  the  year  when  the  class  celebrated  their  "silver 
wedding,"  that  he  was  with  difficulty  induced  to  attend  the 
meeting.  In  1859  he  went  into  insolvency.  His  pecuniary 
misfortunes  preyed  upon  him,  and,  it  was  thought,  some- 
what affected  his  mind  for  several  of  the  last  years  of  his 
life.  The  disease  of  which  he  finally  died  was  softening  of 
the  brain,  which  began  to  come  on,  it  was  thought,  about 


38  THE   CLASS    OF    1833. 

two  years  before  his  death.  On  the  1st  of  April,  1861, 
whilst  driving  from  Boston,  he  was  seized  with  an  attack 
of  paralysis,  affecting  his  lower  limbs.  He  was  conveyed 
to  his  home,  and  never  left  it  again.  After  lingering  more 
than  nine  months,  he  died. 

He  married,  June  3,  1846,  Gertrude,  daughter  of  the  late 
John  Binney,  Esq.,  of  Boston,  who  survived  him.  He  left 
also  three  daughters; — Gertrude  Binney,  born  1847;  Louisa 
Binney,  born  1855;  and  Mary  Binney,  born  1858. 

Mrs.  Pope  died  at  Boston,  January  29,  1881.  The  eldest 
daughter  married  Bryant  P.  Tilden  (M.  I.  T.  1868),  and 
died  at  Phillipsburg,  Montana,  March  26,  1878,  leaving  chil- 
dren. The  youngest  died  in  Boston,  November  21,  1876. 
Louisa  alone  survives,  who  is  the  wife  of  Rev.  J.  Frederic 
Button,  of  South  Boston. 


FLETCHER  WEBSTER. 

"PLETCHER  WEBSTER,  son  of  the  eminent  statesman 
and  orator,  Daniel  Webster,  was  born  in  Portsmouth, 
N.  H.,  July  23,  1813.  His  preparatory  studies  having  been 
completed  at  the  public  Latin  School  in  Boston,  he  entered 
Harvard  College  in  1829,  and  graduated  in  1833,  obtaining 
the  distinction  of  being  chosen  class  orator  at  graduating, 
—  an  honor  more  gratifying  to  his  social  disposition  than 
academic  laurels. 

Upon  leaving  college  he  studied  law,  partly  With  Samuel  B. 
Walcott  at  Hopkinton,  Mass.,  and  partly  with  his  father  in 
Boston,  and  was  in  due  time  admitted  to  the  Suffolk  Bar  and 
began  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Boston.  In  the  autumn 
of  1836  he  married  Caroline  Story,  daughter  of  Hon.  Stephen 
White,  of  Salem,  Mass.,  and  immediately  after  his  marriage 
put  in  execution  a  plan  previously  formed  of  trying  his  pro- 


FLETCHER   WEBSTER.  39 

fession  at  the  West.  He  went  first  to  Detroit,  where  he 
remained  till  the  close  of  1837,  anc^  then  removed  to  La  Salle, 
111.,  where  he  made  the  acquaintance  of  Abraham  Lincoln, — 
an  incident  kindly  recalled  by  the  latter  during  his  presidency, 
in  1861. 

Notwithstanding  the  possession  of  qualities  strikingly 
adapted  to  insure  success  in  his  chosen  profession,  Webster 
seems  never  to  have  contemplated  with  pleasure  a  permanent 
practice  of  the  law;  and  when,  in  1840,  his  father  was  ap- 
pointed Secretary  of  State  under  President  Harrison,  he 
repaired  to  Washington,  where  the  office  of  private  secretary 
to  Mr.  Webster  proved  much  more  congenial  to  his  tastes 
and  temperament.  The  affectionate  relations  which  sub- 
sisted between  father  and  son  during  this  period  of  mutual, 
confidence  form  an  interesting  episode  in  their  lives ;  and  to 
his  son's  talent  and  perception  Mr.  Webster  gladly  intrusted 
the  management  of  important  affairs,  while  he  found  in  him 
delightful  companionship.  In  1843,  when  the  late  Caleb 
Gushing  was  appointed  Commissioner  to  China,  Webster  ac- 
companied him  as  Secretary  of  Legation,  returning  in  1845. 
In  1850  he  was  appointed  by  President  Taylor  Surveyor  of 
the  Port  of  Boston, —  an  office  which  he  retained  until  March, 
1 86 1,  when  a  successor  was  nominated  by  President  Lincoln. 
In  these  various  capacities  Webster  manifested  much  practi- 
cal ability,  being  always  noted  for  popular  qualities  of  mind 
and  heart,  which,  though  they  may  have  retarded  higher 
ambition,  served  to  endear  him  to  those  with  whom  he  was 
associated. 

Immediately  after  the  firing  on  Fort  Sumter,  he  responded 
to  an  appeal  made  to  the  patriotic  citizens  of  Massachusetts 
by  the  following  notice,  which  appeared  in  the  Boston  papers 
of  Saturday,  April  20,  1861 :  — 

"  Fellow-citizens,  —  I  have  been  assured  by  the  Executive 
Department  that  the  State  will  accept  at  once  an  additional 
regiment  of  infantry.  I  therefore  propose  to  meet  to-morrow 


40  THE   CLASS   OF    1833. 

at  ten  o'clock,  in  front  of  the  Merchants'  Exchange,  State 
Street,  such  of  my  fellow-citizens  as  will  join  in  raising  this 
new  regiment.  The  muster  roll  will  be  ready  to  be  signed 
then  and  there.  Respectfully, 

"  FLETCHER  WEBSTER." 

At  the  appointed  hour  on  Sunday,  April  21,  an  immense 
crowd  appeared  in  State  Street ;  and  such  was  the  enthusi- 
asm produced  by  the  meeting  that  in  three  days  the  muster- 
roll  was  filled;  and,  after  various  vicissitudes  incident  to 
preliminary  drill,  during  which  the  discipline  of  the  men  was 
perfected,  the  regiment  with  full  ranks  joined  the  Army  of  the 
Potomac.  Early  in  1862  the  regiment  was  ordered  into  Vir- 
ginia for  more  active  service,  and  for  several  months  remained 
guarding  the  upper  Potomac,  in  order  to  prevent  the  enemy 
from  crossing  irtto  Maryland.  During  this  time  Colonel  Web- 
ster displayed  many  of  the  traits  of  an  excellent  commander. 
His  discipline  was  not  alloyed  by  petulance  and  passion.  The 
soldierly  appearance  of  his  men  and  the  order  of  the  camp 
gave  a  good  name  to  the  regiment.  To  use  the  words  of  his 
biographer,  "  His  men  were  warmly  attached  to  their  colonel. 
They  appreciated  his  manly  frankness,  his  simplicity  of  char- 
acter, his  kindness  of  heart,  and  the  cheerfulness  with  which  he 
bore  the  hardships  and  privations  of  the  service,  though  he  had 
no  longer  the  unworn  energies  of  youth  to  sustain  him." 

It  was  while  Colonel  Webster  was  absent  on  leave,  being 
called  home  by  the  death  of  a  favorite  child,  that  the  regi- 
ment was  for  the  first  time  seriously  engaged,  in  the  battle 
of  Cedar  Mountain,  August  9,  1862.  The  behavior  of  the 
officers  and  men  under  a  galling  fire  showed  their  discipline. 
Upon  the  return  of  Colonel  Webster  to  his  regiment,  they 
were  ordered  to  join  McDowell's  corps,  under  General  Pope, 
moving  toward  the  north  fork  of  the  Rappahannock,  in  order 
to  hold  the  passes  in  that  vicinity.  On  the  28th  of  August, 
their  division,  under  General  Ricketts,  encountered  General 


FLETCHER    WEBSTER.  41 

Longstreet's  advance,  and  were  sharply  engaged,  Colonel 
Webster  "  behaving  splendidly  "  according  to  the  report  of 
one  of  his  officers.  Two  days  after,  on  August  30,  they  were 
stationed  on  the  left  in  the  second  battle  of  Bull  Run,  being 
confronted  by  the  main  force  of  the  Rebel  army.  The  on- 
slaught of  the  enemy  was  fierce  and  irresistible.  The  regi- 
ment was  overbprne  by  superior  numbers,  and  while  it  was 
falling  back  in  good  order,  and  without  breaking  ranks,  Colo- 
nel Webster  received  a  mortal  wound.  Lieutenant  Haviland 
was  near  him  when  he  fell,  and  with  two  men  went  with  him 
to  the  rear.  They  laid  him  under  a  sheltering  bush,  but 
Lieutenant  Haviland  being  himself  shortly  after  taken  pris- 
oner, the  wounded  Colonel  was  left  to  die  alone. 

His  body  was  after  the  battle  recovered  by  the  exertions  of 
Lieutenant  Arthur  Dehon,  the  eldest  son  of  his  life-long  and 
intimate  friend,  William  Dehon.  It  was  carried  to  Boston, 
and  the  funeral  took  place  in  that  city  on  the  9th  of  Septem- 
ber, 1862.  It  was  the  wish  of  Colonel  Webster  that,  if  he 
died  in  the  war  and  his  body  was  brought  home,  it  should 
repose  one  night  on  the  table  in  the  library  of  his  father's 
house  at  Marshfield.  Accordingly,  immediately  after  the  fu- 
neral, a  hearse,  drawn  by  fleet  black  horses,  and  attended  only 
by  one  carriage  containing  our  classmates  Dehon  and  Eaton, 
and  Mr.  Peter  Butler,  an  intimate  family  friend,  set  out  for  that 
place,  arriving  early  in  the  evening.  His  wish  was  reverently 
complied  with,  and  the  next  day  all  that  was  mortal  of 
Fletcher  Webster  was  interred  on  that  desolate  bluff  which 
overlooks  the  ocean,  and  where  repose  the  remains  of  his 
father  and  kindred. 

To  quote  again  from  his  memoir,  prepared  for  "  Harvard 
Memorial  Biographies"  by  George  S.  Hillard:  "Colonel 
Webster  was  long  mourned  and  affectionately  remembered 
by  the  officers  and  men  who  had  served  under  him.  And 
there  were  others  who  grieved  for  his  loss ;  for  though  not 
widely  known,  he  had  many  faithful  friends  who  had  known 

6 


42  THE   CLASS   OF    1833. 

and  loved  him  from  boyhood,  and  had  stood  by  him  in  all  the 
changes  and  chances  of  life.  His  own  heart  was  warm,  his 
nature  generous  and  open,  and  his  temperament  cordial  and 
frank.  His  tastes  were  strongly  social,  and  his  powers  of 
social  entertainment  were  such  as  few  men  possess.  He  had 
an  unerring  sense  of  the  ludicrous,  his  wit  was  ready  and 
responsive,  and  no  man  could  relate  an  amusing  incident  or 
tell  a  humorous  story  with  more  dramatic  power.  Nor  was 
he  without  faculties  of  a  higher  order.  His  perceptions  were 
quick  and  accurate;  he  was  an  able  and  forcible  speaker;  he 
wrote  with  a  clearness  and  strength  that  belonged  to  him  by 
right  of  inheritance.  The  value  which  his  friends  had  for 
him  was  higher  than  the  mark  which  he  made  upon  the 
times.  The  course  of  his  life  had  not  in  all  respects  been 
favorable  to  his  growth  and  influence,  and  he  had  not  the 
iron  resolution  and  robust  purpose  which  makes  will  triumph 
over  circumstance." 

Colonel  Webster  was  peculiarly  fortunate  in  his  death.  To 
none  was  the  country  so  much  indebted  as  to  his  father  for 
the  faith  that  was  in  them  in  regard  to  the  unity  of  the 
nation.  When,  however,  in  the  process  of  events,  this  ques- 
tion drifted  into  war,  —  when  that  unity  was  at  stake,  and 
was  to  be  settled  in  the  dread  arbitrament  of  battle,  —  then 
it  was  meet  that  the  son  of  Daniel  Webster  should  die  to 
defend  the  position  for  which  his  father  had  contended  so 
triumphantly,  and  which  accorded  thoroughly  with  his  own 
well-grounded  belief;  and  he  died  gallantly,  at  the  head  of 
his  regiment,  with  his  face  to  the  foe. 

Colonel  Webster  left  a  widow  and  three  children,  —  two 
sons  and  one  daughter.  His  eldest  son,  Daniel,  died  at 
Marshfield  in  1865,  at  the  age  of  twenty-five.  The  youngest 
son,  Ashburton,  died  at  New  York  in  1879,  aged  thirty.  His 
daughter,  Caroline,  widow  of  James  Geddes  Day,  died  at 
Marshfield,  August  16,  1881.  None  of  these  left  issue. 


BOLTON   AND   KELLY. 


43 


BOLTON    AND    KELLY. 


MOSES   KELLY. 

TV/TOSES  KELLY  died  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  August  isth, 
•LVJ.  1870,  of  pulmonary  consumption,  after  an  illness  of 
some  months. 

Mr.  Kelly  was  born  at  Groveland.  Livingston  County,  New 
York,  on  the  2ist  of  January,  1809.  His  father,  Daniel 
Kelly,  emigrated  from  Northumberland  County,  Pennsylvania, 
to  the  valley  of  the  Genessee,  where  he  bought  large  tracts 
of  land  and  carried  on  a  farm.  His  mother's  maiden  name 
was  Mary  Roupe,  a  Philadelphian  of  good  family.  He  was 
prepared  for  college  at  the  celebrated  school  at  Temple  Hill, 
Geneseo,  N.  Y.,  then  kept  by  three  young  Harvard  gradu- 
ates, afterwards  distinguished  in  their  several  professions, — 
the  late  Rev.  Dr.  Seth  Sweetser  of  Worcester,  the  late  Presi- 
dent Felton,  and  the  late  Mr.  Henry  R.  Cleveland.  He  was 
the  oldest  person  in  the  class,  being  over  twenty  when  he 
entered.  The  rank,  however,  he  immediately  took,  was  by 
no  means  due  to  this  alone.  He  early  showed  himself  a 
good  scholar,  and  easily  maintained  throughout  his  college 
course  a  high  standing  in  this  respect.  But  what  more  im- 
pressed the  class  was  a  certain  weight  and  judicial  gravity 
of  character,  which  made  him  facile  princeps  in  all  class 
gatherings. 

Immediately  after  graduating,  he  entered  the  law  office 
of  Orlando  Hastings,  Esq.,  of  Rochester,  N.Y.,  where  he 
read  for  three  years.  In  1836  he  went  to  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
and  formed  a  partnership  with  his  intimate  friend,  classmate, 


44  THE   CLASS    OF    1833. 

and  college  chum,  Thomas  Bolton.  This  partnership  con- 
tinued for  twenty  years,  and  was  dissolved  only  by  the  latter 
being  elected  to  a  seat  on  the  bench  of  the  Court  of  Common 
Pleas.  After  the  termination  of  this  connection,  Mr.  Kelly 
continued  till  his  death  chiefly  devoted  to  his  profession. 
He  made  commercial  law  and  equity  a  specialty,  and  as  an 
equity  lawyer  was  esteemed  in  Ohio  to  be  one  of  the  fore- 
most in  this  country. 

In  1839  he  was  chosen  city  attorney.  In  1844-45  he 
served  two  years  in  the  State  Senate.  "  In  this  body,"  says 
the  Cleveland  Plain  Dealer,  "though  avowedly  a  Whig,  he 
maintained  a  manly  independence,  and  voted  against  his  party 
whenever  a  nice  sense  of  right  so  prompted  him."  In  Sep- 
tember, 1866,  President  Johnson  appointed  him  attorney  for 
the  Northern  District  of  Ohio;  he  held  the  office  until  March 
following,  when  the  Senate  refused  to  confirm  his  appoint- 
ment, on  the  ground  of  his  having  been  a  member  of  the 
Philadelphia  Convention  the  previous  summer. 

In  1839  he  married  Jane,  daughter  of  General  Howe,  of 
New  Haven,  Conn.,  an  extensive  publisher  and  book  importer 
of  that  place.  He  had  six  children,  of  whom  four, — two 
sons  and  two  daughters,  —  with  their  mother,  survive.1 

In  1850  he 'purchased  a  tract  of  thirty  acres  on  Euclid 
Avenue,  in  Cleveland,  then  known  as  the  Giddings  Farm, 
where  he  built  a  house  which  was  thenceforward  his  home. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Cuyahoga  County  Bar  held  at  Cleve- 
land, immediately  after  his  death,  the  following  resolutions 
were  passed. 

"  In  view  of  the  recent  death  of  Hon.  Moses  Kelly,  the 
members  of  the  bar  of  Cuyahoga  County,  here  convened, 
adopt  the  following  Resolutions  :  —  . 

"  I.  That  while  we  submit  with  humble  resignation  to  the 
dispensation  of  Providence  in  removing  from  our  midst  our 

1  See  note  A,  p.  52. 


BOLTON   AND   KELLY. 


45 


friend  and  brother,  we  can  never  cease  to  lament  the  loss  of 
one  who,  by  reason  of  his  intellectual  superiority,  his  careful 
study  and  training,  his  genial  disposition,  his  sound  judgment, 
became  eminent  in  his  profession,  beloved  and  respected  as 
a  citizen,  and  whose  death  creates  a  void  which  cannot  easily 
be  filled. 

"  2.  That  in  the  death  of  Moses  Kelly  the  bar  has  lost  one 
of  its  most  distinguished  members,  a  man  of  great  industry 
and  perseverance,  faithful  as  a  friend,  wise,  just,  and  scrupu- 
lously honest  as  a  man  and  counsellor,  and  firm  and  unwaver- 
ing in  the  discharge  of  every  duty. 

"  3.  That  we  tender  our  deepest  sympathy  to  the  family  of 
the  deceased,  and  join  in  a  body  in  the  funeral  ceremonies. 

"  4.  That  the  President  of  this  meeting  be  requested  to 
communicate  a  copy  of  these  resolutions  to  the  family  of  the 
deceased,  and  to  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  of  Cuyahoga 
County,  Ohio,  and  ask  to  have  them  entered  on  the  journal 
of  the  court;  and  that  George  Willey,  Esq.  be  a  committee 
to  present  these  resolutions  to  the  District  and  Circuit  Courts 
for  the  Northern  District  of  Ohio,  with  a  request  that  they 
be  entered  upon  their  journals." 

These  resolutions  were  supported  by  feeling  and  eloquent 
speeches ;  among  others,  the  following  words  from  Bushnel 
White,  Esq.,  U.  S.  Commissioner,  will  find  a  response  with 
all  who  have  ever  known  Mr.  Kelly:  — 

"  Moses  Kelly  was  too  quiet,  too  honest,  too  pure  and 
noble  in  character,  to  be  a  favorite  subject  of  earthly  eulogists 
in  this  age  of  greed,  and  pride,  and  ism.  He  loved  his  pro- 
fession, not  for  the  money  or  reputation  it  brought  him,  but 
for  the  good  it  enabled  him  to  do  his  fellow-man.  He 
guarded  and  protected  the  estates  of  widows  and  orphans 
committed  to  his  care,  to  benefit  them,  not  to  enrich  him- 
self. Of  the  value  of  money,  for  brilliant  equipage  and 
costly  entertainment,  he  was  wholly  indifferent;  in  feeding 


46  THE   CLASS   OF  1833. 

the  hungry  and  clothing  the  naked,  he  was  fully  cognizant, 
as  many  a  poor  man  can  testify.  He  was  not  envious  of 
the  professional  success  of  his  contemporaries  in  the  law, 
for  he  was  not  capable  of  such  a  feeling ;  he  stood  too  high 
to  be  affected  by  that  passion,  which  has  dragged  even 
angels  down.  Indeed,  he  stood  pre-eminent  as  a  chancery 
lawyer  at  this  bar.  Nor  was  this  wonderful.  His  entire  up- 
rightness, his  perfect  purity  of  character,  ever  leading  him  to 
love  equity  and  do  equity,  taught  him  to  know  equity.  He  has 
gone  where  not  a  single  principle  governing  him  for  sixty- 
two  years  of  earthly  existence  will  need  change  to  bring  him 
safely  through  that  narrow  gate  which  leads  to  life  eternal." 

Other  speakers  laid  stress  on  the  great  strength  of  intellect 
shown  by  Mr.  Kelly,  and  on  his  uncommon  modesty.  To 
his  influence,  also,  was  largely  ascribed  the  courtesy  between 
attorneys  observable  at  the  Cleveland  Bar. 

In  presenting  the  above  resolutions  to  the  United  States 
Circuit  Court,  Mr.  Willey,  in  the  course  of  his  remarks, 
said :  "  Of  unquestioned  and  recognized  ability  as  a  lawyer, 
and  especially  learned  in  at  least  one  great  department  of 
the  law,  it  was  true  of  him,  that  high  above  professional 
achievement  and  success  rose  his  character  as  a  man" 


THOMAS   BOLTON. 

HpHOMAS  BOLTON  died  suddenly  at  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
-*•  February  ist,  1871,  of  neuralgia  of  the  heart.  He  was 
born  at  Scipio,  Cayuga  County,  N.  Y.,  where  his  father  was 
an  extensive  farmer,  on  the  29th  of  November,  1809.  He  was 
prepared  for  college  at  Geneseo,  N.  Y.,  at  the  same  school 
and  under  the  same  distinguished  masters  as  his  friend,  the 
subject  of  the  previous  notice,  and  entered  with  him  after 
the  winter  vacation,  in  February,  1830.  He  had  a  respecta- 


BOLTON   AND   KELLY.  47 

ble  rank  as  a  scholar,  and  took  a  lively  interest  and  a  prom- 
inent part  in  all  that  concerned  the  class.  Before  he  left 
Cambridge  it  was  felt  that  his  incisive  character  and  great 
energy  would  make  his  presence  felt  wherever  he  finally 
found  a  home. 

Upon  graduating,  he  read  law  rather  more  than  a  year  in 
the  office  of  John  C.  Spencer,  Esq.,  at  Canandaigua,  N.  Y. 
Then,  after  due  travel  and  deliberation,  he  finally  selected 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  as  his  residence,  where  he  established  him- 
self in  the  autumn  of  1834,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
September,  1835.  After  remaining  in  connection  with  James 
L.  Conger,  Esq.,  for  about  a  year,  he  sent  for  his  classmate 
and  life-long  friend,  Moses  Kelly,  and  the  two  formed  a  part- 
nership in  the  autumn  of  1836.  This  connection  continued 
for  twenty  years,  having  a  leading  position  in  the  northern 
part  of  Ohio,  and  lasting  until  1856,  when  Mr.  Bolton  was 
elected  one  of  the  judges  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas. 
This  office  he  held  for  ten  years.  After  his  retirement  from 
the  bench,  in  1866,  he  devoted  himself  to  his  private  affairs. 
He  had  amassed  a  fortune,  the  care  of  which  occupied  his 
time. 

Judge  Bolton  married,  September  7,  1837,  Elizabeth  L. 
Cone,  who  died  January  26,  1846,  having  had  five  children, 
four  of  whom  —  three  sons  and  one  daughter  —  are  living. 
December  I,  1846,  he  married  Emeline  Russell,  who,  with 
one  of  her  sons,  survives.1  He  lived  on  Euclid  Avenue,  the 
great  ornament  of  the  suburbs  of  Cleveland,  at  a  place  ad- 
joining that  of  Mr.  Kelly,  and  in  a  house  exactly  like  that 
of  his  friend.  He  always  maintained  interest  in  his  Alma 
Mater,  and  of  his  four  sons  three  have  been  Harvard  stu- 
dents. 

In  the  Cleveland  Daily  Leader  of  February  2,  1871,  may 
be  found  the  following :  "  Few  men  in  this  community  are 
so  widely  known  as  Judge  Bolton.  His  long  prominence  as 

1  See  note  B,  p.  52. 


48  THE   CLASS    OF    1833. 

a  lawyer,  judge,  politician,  and  man  of  wealth,  made  him 
known  among  all  classes,  and  if  candor  requires  it  to  be  said 
that  he  had  enemies,  it  is  equally  true  to  say  that  he  had  his 
portion  of  friends.  As  a  man  he  had  peculiarities  that  did 
not  contribute  to  his  popularity  with  the  masses,  his  manner 
being  generally  cold  and  often  even  stern;  but  behind  this 
external  crust  of  seeming  harshness  those  who  could  touch 
him  nearest  knew  there  lived  a  warm  heart  and  a  genial 
nature,  and  to  his  friends,  and  particularly  in  the  circle  of 
his  home,  he  was  the  most  companionable  and  social  of  men. 
As  a  lawyer,  when  in  the  full  tide  of  his  practice,  he  was  the 
peer  of  the  ablest  of  his  contemporaries.  The  firm  of  Kelly 
and  Bolton  held,  during  its  existence,  a  leading  and  enviable 
position.  As  a  judge  he  was  fearless  and  impartial,  looking 
only  to  the  side  of  justice,  whether  the  issue  affected  the 
lowly  or  the  great,  the  poor  or  the  rich.  In  his  private  deal- 
ings he  was  distinguished  by  a  strict  integrity  and  a  faithful 
adherence  to  his  engagements,  and  the  well-defined  principles 
which  governed  his  conduct  in  this  regard  he  exacted  of 
others.  In  every  position  he  brought  to  his  work  untiring 
energy,  indomitable  perseverance,  and  the  will  to  succeed. 
The  marked  success  of  his  life  bears  the  best  testimony  to 
his  ability  and  his  sagacity." 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Cleveland  Bar,  held  a  day  or  two  after 
Judge  Bolton's  death,  the  following  resolutions  were  unani- 
mously adopted :  — 

"  Whereas,  It  has  pleased  God  to  remove  by  death  Thomas 
Bolton,  a  distinguished  member  of  this  bar;  and 

"  Whereas,  The  members  of  this  bar  desire  publicly  to 
express  their  sense  of  the  loss  sustained  by  them  in  this 
dispensation  of  Divine  Providence;  therefore  be  it 

"Resolved,  That  Judge  Bolton,  by  devotion  to  the  duties  of 
his  profession,  by  observing  and  maintaining  under  all  cir- 
cumstances the  true  relations  which  exist  between  the  lawyer 


BOLTON   AND    KELLY. 


49 


and  his  client,  by  his  integrity,  his  ability,  and  the  aid  and 
encouragement  given  by  him  to  young  men,  has  afforded  us 
an  example  worthy  of  commendation  and  imitation. 

"  Resolved,  That  his  career  as  a  judge  of  this  district  was 
marked  by  that  devotion  to  duty,  that  regard  for  the  right 
of  suitors,  and  that  independence  and  impartiality,  which 
commanded  the  respect  and  approval  of  the  profession  and 
of  this  community. 

"  Resolved,  That  in  all  the  walks  of  life,  whether  as  a  citizen, 
a  counsellor,  or  a  friend,  or  in  the  more  intimate  relations  of 
social  and  domestic  life,  we  have  ever  found  him  in  the  high- 
est degree  exemplary,  faithful  to  his  obligations,  and  true  to 
his  profession. 

"  Resolved,  That  we  will  ever  cherish  his  memory  with  that 
affection  which  a  life  true  to  its  high  duties,  a  professional 
career  devoted  to  its  noblest  purposes,  and  intercourse  with 
us  for  years  marked  by  kindness  and  integrity,  necessarily 
inspire. 

"  Resolved,  That  we  tender  his  family  our  warmest  sym- 
pathies in  their  sore  bereavement,  and  ask  the  privilege  of 
following  his  remains  to  the  grave,  as  those  bereaved  of  a 
friend  and  brother. 

"  Resolved,  That  the  chairman  of  this  meeting  be  requested 
to  move  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  at  its  next  session,  to 
place  these  resolutions  on  the  records  of  said  court,  and  that 
Hon.  George  Willey  be  requested  to  procure  the  same  action 
in  the  United  States  Court  for  this  district,  and  that  a  copy 
of  them  be  sent  to  the  family  of  our  departed  brother." 

These  resolutions  were  followed  by  several  speeches  eulo- 
gistic of  the  deceased.  Among  others,  Judge  J.  P.  Bishop 
spoke  of  him  as  a  judge,  as  follows :  — 

"  But  Judge  Bolton  was  not  only  the  successful  lawyer  and 
eminent  man  I  have  before  spoken  of,  but  he  was  honored 
by  being  elected  twice  as  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Common 

7 


50  THE   CLASS   OF   1833. 

Pleas.  It  was  in  this  capacity  I  best  knew  him.  And  here 
let  me  say  that,  as  a  lawyer,  it  was  faithfulness  to  his  client's 
interest  that  was  a  great  distinction  in  his  character,  and 
when  he  was  on  the  bench  it  was  his  impartial,  unflinching 
determination  to  administer  the  law  as  applicable  to  the  tes- 
timony that  was  the  most  distinguishing  feature  of  his  judi- 
cial character. 

"  These  characteristics  at  the  bar  and  on  the  bench  made 
him  appear  at  times  arbitrary ;  but  when  one  came  to  know 
him,  they  would  readily  see  he  was  only  carrying  out  what 
he  deemed  was  his  duty  to  client  and  litigant.  But  he  was 
not  arbitrary  in  any  natural  sense;  it  was  rather  apparent 
than  otherwise.  I  had  occasion  to  know  him  intimately  in 
our  associations  together  on  the  bench,  and  in  all  our  private 
consultations  and  deliberations,  officially,  at  home;  and  on 
the  circuit,  no  person  was  more  desirous  to  get  at  the  exact 
truth  and  right  than  he,  and  no  person  was  more  ready  to 
yield  an  opinion  the  moment  he  came  to  see  that  he  was 
mistaken. 

"Judge  Bolton  had  this  distinguishing  trait  of  character, — 
that  of  positiveness,  —  and  this  I  observed  more  on  the  bench 
than  anywhere  else,  and  it  had  in  many  cases  a  very  useful 
result,  —  that  was  to  quiet  litigation." 


Thus  lived  and  died  the  subject  of  the  last  notice  and  of  the 
preceding  one.  "Bolton  and  Kelly"  were  household  words 
for  the  four  years  of  their  college  life,  and  have  continued 
so  with  scores  of  their  classmates  and  college  friends.  Their 
whole  connection  was  remarkable.  Coming  to  Cambridge, 
towards  the  close  of  1829,  from  the  same  birthplace,  West- 
ern New  York,  and  the  same  preparatory  school,  —  of  nearly 
the  same  age  and  five  years  older  than  the  average  of  their 
classmates,  —  they  at  once  took  a  stand  higher  than  that 


BOLTON   AND   KELLY.  51 

belonging  to  simple  seniority.  Inseparable  through  their  col- 
lege life,  parted  only  in  their  professional  preparation,  they 
came  together  again,  three  years  after  graduating,  in  the  city 
of  Cleveland,  to  form  a  partnership  which  continued  for 
twenty  years,  and  was  eminent  throughout  a  wide  territory, 
and  to  resume  a  friendship  which  lasted  until  death,  in 
which  event  they  were  separated  by  a  space  of  less  than  six 
months. 

This  life-long  intimacy  was  the  more  remarkable,  because 
of  the  wide  difference  in  the  characters  of  the  two.  Their 
tastes,  motives,  and  habits  of  mind,  indeed,  were  not  only 
wholly  unlike,  but  diametrically  opposite.  Mr.  Kelly  was  a 
churchman  and  a  conservative;  Judge  Bolton,  a  radical  in 
church  and  state.  The  former  had  much  benevolence,  the 
latter  much  thriftiness.  Mr.  Kelly  possessed  trained  powers 
of  thought  and  learning;  Judge  Bolton,  homely  common- 
sense  and  sagacity.  Each  was  consistent  and  faithful  to  his 
ideal. 

Very  seldom  can  Harvard  expect  to  send  out  two  grad- 
uates, who,  from  their  long  and  unbroken  harmony  and  rare 
blending  of  opposite  virtues,  are  able  to  affect  a  wider  circle 
or  leave  a  deeper  impression. 


52  THE   CLASS   OF   1833. 

NOTE  A. 
CHILDREN  OF  MOSES  AND  JANE  (HOWE)  KELLY. 

Frank  Howe,  born  May  21,  1840;  attorney  at  law,  Cleveland,  Ohio;  three 
years  at  Kenyon  College  ;  married,  and  has  two  children ;  —  a  son,  living  with 
him;  and  a  daughter,  married  in  January,  1883,  to  J.  C.  Barney,  of  New  York. 

Jane  Eliza,  born  Jan.  28,  1842  ;  died  January,  1872. 

George  D.,  born  November,  1844 ;  educated  at  Western  Reserve  College ; 
married  November,  1871,  and  has  three  children;  now  resides  in  Pennsylvania, 
and  is  in  the  iron  business. 

Margaret  S.,  born  June  16,  1846;  lives  with  her  mother. 

Mary,  born  July,  1848  ;  died  July,  1863. 

Clara,  born  June,  1850;  married  Earle  J.  Knight,  of  Ann  Arbor,  Michigan, 
December,  1879,  and  has  one  son. 

Mrs.  Moses  Kelly  lives  in  Cleveland,  on  the  old  place,  but  not  in  the  old 
homestead. 

NOTE  B. 
CHILDREN  OF  THOMAS  AND  ELIZABETH  L.  (CONE)  BOLTON. 

Festus  Cone,  born  June  7,  1838  ;  died  Feb.  8,  1839. 

Thomas  Kelly,  born  March  25,  1840 ;  graduated  at  Harvard,  1861 ;  a  lawyer 
by  profession  ;  died  of  hemorrhage  of  the  brain,  July  10,  1879. 

Elizabeth  Cone,  born  Aug.  16,  1841  ;  married,  and  has  two  sons;  lives  in 
Brunswick,  Germany,  where  she  has  been  settled  for  ten  years. 

Festus  Cone,  born  Jan.  12,  1844;  lives  as  a  farmer  in  Leicester,  N.  Y. ; 
married,  and  has  two  children,  —  one  son  and  one  daughter. 

James  Henry,  born  Jan.  20,  1846;  educated  at  Western  Reserve  College, 
1866;  LL.  B.  at  Harvard,  1869;  is  Clerk  of  the  Court  in  Sioux  City,  Iowa; 
has  been  in  the  Iowa  Legislature ;  married,  but  has  no  children. 

CHILDREN  OF  THOMAS  AND  EMELINE  (RUSSELL)  BOLTON. 

George  Russell,  born  Jan.  31,  1851  ;  died  Sept.  9,  1859. 

Charles  Chester,  born  March  23,  1855  ;  was  some  time  a  student  in  the  class 
of  1878,  H.  C. ;  lives  with  his  mother  in  the  old  homestead  at  Cleveland,  Ohio; 
is  in  the  wholesale  iron  trade ;  married,  and  has  one  son. 


CHARLES   JACKSON.  53 


CHARLES  JACKSON. 

/CHARLES  JACKSON  was  the  son  of  Charles  and  Fanny 
V«/  (Cabot)  Jackson,  and  was  born  in  Boston,  March  4, 
1815.  His  father,  a  distinguished  jurist,  was  on  the  bencji 
of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Massachusetts  from  1813  to  1823, 
and  during  a  long  life  commanded  the  respect  and  reverence 
of  the  entire  community. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  chiefly  at  the  schools  of  Mr. 
Daniel  Greenleaf  Ingraham  and  Mr.  William  Wells.  Some- 
what retired  from  his  fellows,  he  devoured  books,  con- 
structed curious  machines,  discussed  grave  questions,  and 
in  various  ways  showed  the  remarkable  acuteness  and 
versatility  which  distinguished  his  later  life. 

Entering  college  at  the  beginning  of  the  sophomore  year, 
at  Commencement,  1830,  he  was  soon  recognized  as  the 
genius  of  the  class.  He  disregarded  college  rank,  satisfied 
in  this  respect  with  being  admitted  among  the  second 
"  eight "  to  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society.  His  time  as  an 
undergraduate  was  devoted  to  desultory  reading,  principally 
in  English  belles-lettres,  and  the  fascinations  of  chemistry. 

After  graduating  he  began  the  study  of  the  law  with  his 
father,  and  continued  it  in  the  office  of  Hon.  Charles  G.  Loring. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  Suffolk  Bar  in  1836.  The  years  1837 
and  1838  he  spent  in  Europe.  On  returning,  he  attended  to 
civil  engineering,  which  he  prosecuted  on  the  Western  and 
Eastern  railroads  in  Massachusetts  during  the  years  1839  and 
1840.  His  natural  tastes  and  talents,  largely  mechanical,  well 
fitted  him  for  the  last-named  profession ;  and  his  remarkable 
quickness  of  mind  and  immense  fund  of  miscellaneous  knowl- 
edge would  have  rendered  him  eminent  in  the  former.  But 
after  1840  he  abandoned  both,  and  turned  his  attention  to 
iron-making,  styling  himself  thenceforward  an  "  iron-master." 


54  THE   CLASS    OF    1833. 

After  passing  through  a  season  of  disaster  and  surmounting 
it,  his  ability  made  his  tasks  so  light  that  he  found  ample 
leisure  for  various  studies,  which  almost  to  the  last  had  an 
ever-increasing  attraction,  and  for  that  simple  and  hearty  hos- 
pitality which  for  a  quarter  of  a  century  delighted  its  favored 
recipients,  whether  they  were  the  distinguished  of  this  or 
other  lands,  or  simply  old  friends  with  little  learning  or  talent. 

He  married,  February  16,  1842,  his  cousin,  Susan  C., 
youngest  -daughter  of  the  late  Dr.  James  Jackson,  who  sur- 
vives him. 

He  died  in  Boston,  July  30,  1 871,  after  a  lingering  and 
painful  illness  of  many  months. 

He  left  two  sons  and  one  daughter.  His  eldest  child  mar- 
ried the  Rev.  George  McKean  Folsom,  and  died  a  short  time 
before  him,  leaving  one  daughter.  The  sons  are  successful 
stockbrokers  in  Boston.  The  eldest  is  married  and  has 
children.  They  both  graduated  at  Harvard. 


The  following  biographical  notice  of  him  appeared  in  the 
columns  of  the  Boston  Daily  Advertiser,  a  few  days  after 
his  death. 

"  After  a  long-protracted  illness,  endured  with  uncomplain- 
ing patience,  Mr.  Charles  Jackson,  the  second  of  that  name, 
son  of  the  eldest  of  the  three  brothers  Charles,  James,  and 
Patrick,  all  very  honored  and  well  remembered  in  our  com- 
munity, has  laid  down  the  burden  of  a  suffering  life.  He  was 
less  known  to  the  world  than  many  men  of  his  force  of  mind 
and  character,  having  cared  little  for  any  distinction  he  might 
have  gained  by  the  display  of  his  remarkable  abilities.  Ex- 
cept on  a  single  occasion,  the  delivery  of  a  lecture  in  a  course 
instituted  by  the  American  Academy,  he  has  hardly  been 
before  the  public  at  all.  Those  who  remember  the  freshness 
and  originality  of  that  effort  know  with  what  effect  he  could 
handle  facts  and  arguments,  and  can  judge  how  powerful  an 


CHARLES   JACKSON.  55 

advocate  and  how  dangerous  an  opponent  he  would  have 
shown  himself  in  any  discussion  into  which  he  might  have 
thrown  his  swift  and  subtle  intelligence. 

"  But  his  business  was  a  practical  one,  and  he  was  content 
to  devote  his  energies  mainly  to  building  up  that  large  manu- 
facturing establishment  which  owes  its  existence  mainly  to  his 
enterprise.  The  difficulties  of  his  early  career  would  have  dis- 
heartened and  broken  any  but  a  strong  and  brave  man.  His 
indomitable  will  and  steady  courage  carried  him  through  the 
season  of  doubt  and  danger,  and  left  him,  worn  by  an  amount 
of  overwork  which  doubtless  shortened  his  life,  to  enjoy  his 
remaining  years  in  that  happy  hc-me  where  he  found  his  chief 
pleasure.  In  that  home  and  the  circle  of  immediate  friends 
he  was  the  centre  of  a  love  and  an  admiration  such  as  few  can 
hope  to  claim.  He  loved  so  well  to  see  others  happy,  and 
knew  so  well  how  to  make  them  so,  especially  the  young, 
in  whose  company  he  always  delighted,  that  he  was  sure  of 
their  affection  in  return.  His  conversation  must  of  necessity 
have  gained  him  admirers,  for  it  was  of  a  very  rare  and  fasci- 
nating quality.  He  was  full  of  knowledge  on  a  great  variety 
of  subjects,  pointed  and  penetrating  in  statement,  keen  in 
argument,  in  which  he  seldom  found  his  match,  copious  in 
expression,  affluent  in  resources,  an  iconoclast  among  the 
commonplaces  of  ignorant  belief,  to  whom  it  was  always 
wholesome  to  listen.  His  letters  were  as  remarkable  as  his 
conversation.  He  went  straight  to  the  heart  of  his  subject, 
with  the  directness  of  a  telegraphic  message.  He  would 
shake  a  question  to  pieces  in  less  time  than  most  men  would 
take  to  make  a  statement  of  it.  His  wonderful  memory,  of 
which  remarkable  facts  are  recorded,  his  very  wide  range  of 
reading,  which  with  him  meant  getting  out  of  a  book  all  that 
was  in  it,  his  use  of  words  for  their  sense,  and  not  for  sound 
or  show,  give  a  solid  significance  to  all  his  letters  on  matters 
that  interested  him,  —  letters  often  written  so  hastily  that 
each  page  blurred  half  the  preceding  one  as  it  was  folded 


56  THE   CLASS   OF    1833. 

back,  and  yet  marrowy  with  meaning  from  the  half-illegible 
address  to  the  blotted  initials  which  stood  for  his  signature. 
There  are  more  able  men  that  do  not  take  the  trouble  to  be 
famous  than  the  world  thinks  or  dreams.  There  are  more 
heroic  lives  than  biographers  to  tell  of  them.  This  was  a 
man  of  strong  and  searching  intellect,  of  heroic  force  in  the 
day  of  trial,  and  of  very  many  endearing  personal  traits  which 
will  live  in  memory  as  long  as  those  who  loved  him." 

H. 


HENRY  YANCEY   GRAY. 

THE  following  notice  of  Henry  Yancey  Gray  was  written 
by  his  fellow-townsman,   intimate   friend,   and  college 
chum,  George  Inglis  Crafts.     The  subject  of  it  had  a  peculiar 
charm  of  manner,  which  those  who  knew  him  in  Cambridge 
must  freshly  remember. 

Born  November  23,  1813;  educated  at  grammar  school 
of  Charleston  College,  Charleston,  S.  C. ;  admitted  fresh- 
man same  college,  where  he  remained  until  senior  year,  when 
Crafts  and  himself  determined  to  go  to  Cambridge ;  entered 
in  1831  junior  class  Harvard  University;  graduated  in  1833; 
returned  to  Charleston,  and  commenced  studying  law;  was 
admitted  to  the  bar,  December  16,  1838;  served  in  one  of  the 
volunteer  companies  which  went  from  Charleston  to  St.  Au- 
gustine for  its  defence,  at  the  commencement  of  the  Seminole 
war,  as  sergeant  of  his  company;  was  appointed,  November 
22,  1839,  United  States  District  Clerk  for  South  Carolina; 
occupied  this  position  until  the  State  seceded,  and  the  court 
became  the  Confederate  State  District  Court,  in  which  he 
retained  his  position  until  the  dissolution  of  the  Confederacy 
and  the  court  with  it.  When  the  United  States  and  its  Dis- 


WILLIAM   WHITING.  57 

trict  Court  were  reconstructed,  he  became  assistant  to  the 
clerk  then  appointed,  in  which  position  he  remained  until  his 
death,  in  1872. 

He  was  married  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Cart,  in  April,  1840. 
She  died  many  years  previous  to  his  own  death,  leaving  no 
issue.  He  never  married  again. 

He  himself,  after  many  months  of  failing  health,  died  in 
Charleston  on  the  4th  of  July,  1872. 

His  remains  were  attended  to  their  last  resting-place  by 
many  friends  and  acquaintances,  all  of  whom  could  have 
borne  testimony  to  his  gentle,  winning  manners  and  genuine 
originality  of  thought.  He  was  too  modest  and  unobtrusive 
ever  to  have  attained  public  honors  in  this  rough  and  half- 
civilized  country  of  ours,  nor  did  he  ever  seek  them. 

His  death  was  put  down  by  the  physicians  as  arising  from 
nervous  prostration. 


WILLIAM  WHITING. 

WILLIAM  WHITING  was  the  son  of  William  and 
Hannah  (Conant)  Whiting,  and  descended  from 
Rev.  Samuel  Whiting,  minister  of  the  church  in  Lynn, 
whose  wife  was  the  daughter  of  Rt.  Hon.  Oliver  St.  John, 
Chief  Justice  of  England  in  Cromwell's  time. 

Born  in  Concord,  March  3,  1813,  he  pursued  his  preparatory 
studies  in  the  academy  of  that  town,  and  graduated  at  Harvard 
College  in  1833.  He  was  third  scholar,  Professors  Bowen  and 
Torry  being  before,  and  Professor  Lovering  just  after  him. 

After  graduating,  he  took  charge  of  a  school  for  young 
ladies  in  Plymouth.  Remaining  there  about  a  year,  he  re- 
turned to  Concord,  where  he  taught  a  similar  school.  In  the 
autumn  of  1835  he  entered  the  office  of  Ellis  Gray  Loring, 
counsellor  at  law,  Boston,  where  he  remained  a  year  and  a 


58  THE  CLASS   OF   1833. 

half.  Then,  after  travelling  for  a  few  months  in  the  West,  he 
entered  the  Law  School  at  Cambridge,  where  he  took  his 
degree  as  LL.  B.  in  1838.  Admitted  to  the  Boston  Bar  in 
November  of  the  same  year,  he  opened  an  office  in  Court 
Street  in  that  city. 

In  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  his  talents  and  industry  at 
once  commanded  attention  and  respect,  and  enabled  him  to 
achieve  early  and  enduring  success,  his  pre-eminence  being 
illustrated  by  the  term  "  Whiting's  court "  often  then  applied 
to  that  tribunal. 

He  was  soon  prompted,  however,  to  seek  a  wider  field  of 
activity  in  the  higher  courts  of  this  and  other  States,  and  of  the 
United  States.  In  these,  he  attained  his  chief  eminence  from 
his  success  in  important  suits  arising  under  the  patent  laws. 
To  these  cases  he  devoted  years  of  careful  research,  and  in 
them  he  developed  great  mechanical  aptness.  The  minutiae 
of  questions  to  which  they  gave  rise  were  scrupulously  exam- 
ined, and  no  pains  spared  to  insure  a  thorough  command  of 
the  case  in  hand.  In  this  manner  he  acquired  the  confidence 
of  his  clients,  and  won  for  himself  a  distinction  seldom  equalled 
in  this  department  of  his  profession,  together  with  a  fortune. 

Although  Mr.  Whiting  was  much  absorbed  in  his  profession, 
yet,  when  the  great  crisis  of  the  nation  approached,  he  was 
especially  interested  in  the  legal  and  constitutional  questions 
which  were  forced  into  prominence.  He  was  one  of  the  first 
among  lawyers  to  claim  for  the  United  States  full  belligerent 
rights  against  those  who  inhabited  the  States  in  rebellion. 
His  views  on  this  subject  were  subsequently  incorporated  in 
his  work  on  War  Powers  under  the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States,  which,  says  his  biographer,1  "  contributed  more  than 
any  other  single  agency  to  the  solution  of  many  of  the  diffi- 
cult questions  arising  in  the  course  of  the  war." 

"  The  early  editions  of  the  work,"  says  the  same  memoir, 
"  were  adopted  by  the  President  and  the  Departments  as  an 

1  The  late  Mr.  Delano  A.  Goddard. 


WILLIAM    WHITING. 


59 


authority  on  the  questions  treated  in  it,  and  new  editions 
followed  as  rapidly  as  new  questions  called  for  examination 
and  decision.  The  value  placed  upon  it  is  best  attested  by 
the  remarkable  fact,  that  within  a  period  of  eight  years  forty- 
three  l  editions  were  printed." 

In  November,  1862,  Mr.  Whiting  was  requested  by  the 
President  to  act  as  solicitor  and  special  counsellor  of  the 
War  Department,  and  this  office,  created  by  statute  in  1863, 
he  filled  until  the  end  of  the  war. 

Mr.  Whiting's  first  public  service  after  the  war  was  that  of 
Presidential  Elector  in  1868,  when  he  gave  the  vote  of  his 
district  for  General  Grant.  In  1872,  he  was  elected  to  the 
Forty-third  Congress.  He  was  so  equipped  for  this  post, 
that  he  must  have  taken  a  high  place  in  its  councils.  He 
had  at  command  much  learning.  He  spoke  easily  and  with 
force.  He  had  been  very  successful  in  the  courts.  He  was 
used  to  affairs,  and  accustomed  to  influence  men  in  high 
stations.  Above  all,  his  capacity  for  patient  and  effective 
work  was  immense. 

But  death,  who  seeks  alike  the  distinguished  and  the 
humble,  suddenly  struck  him  down,  in  the  midst  of  his 
usual  health  and  of  the  high  anticipations  of  his  position. 

He  died  at  his  house  on  Montrose  Avenue,  Roxbury,  on 
the  29th  of  June,  1873,  aged  sixty  years.  He  had  been  con- 
fined within  doors  but  a  few  days,  and  his  illness  excited  no 
apprehensions.  Late  in  the  afternoon  of  that  day,  whilst 
resting  quietly  on  his  pillow,  he  was  seized  with  sharp  pains 
about  the  heart,  and  expired  in  a  few  moments. 

He  was  married  in  October,  1840,  to  Lydia  Gushing 
Russell,  daughter  of  the  Hon.  Thomas  Russell  of  Plymouth, 
who  with  three  children  —  two  sons  and  one  daughter  — 
survived  him. 

Mrs.  Whiting  died  May  7,  1881.     Miss  Whiting  resides  in 

1  To  which  may  be  added  that  at  least  one  edition  was  prepared  for  foreign 
distribution. 


60  THE   CLASS   OF    1833. 

Boston.  The  eldest  son  lives  at  Barre,  Mass.  The  youngest, 
Harold,  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1877,  the  fourth  in  his  class, 
took  the  following  year  the  degree  of  A.  M.,  and  is  now  an 
assistant  teacher  at  the  University  in  the  department  of 
Physics. 

Mr.  Whiting  by  his  will  left  five  thousand  dollars  to  Har- 
vard College,  for  a  scholarship. 

At  the  end  of  the  biography  referred  to  above,  which 
was  prepared  for  the  Historic  Genealogical  Society,  there 
is  appended  a  list  of  Mr.  Whiting's  separate  publications, 
thirty-two  in  number,  mostly  legal  and  political,  partly 
historical. 


JEFFRIES   WYMAN. 

JEFFRIES  WYMAN,  son  of  Rufus  and  Ann  (Morrill) 
Wyman,  was  born  at  Chelmsford,  Mass.,  August  1 1,  1814. 
His  father  was  the  first  physician  of  the  McLean  Asylum 
for  the  Insane,  the  earliest  institution  of  the  kind  in  New 
England.  He  was  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Exeter.  Professor  Bowen,  a  schoolmate,  says  of  him  while 
there,  "  He  would  take  long  rambles  in  the  woods,  and  go 
into  water  or  a-fishing,  and  draw  funny  outline  sketches  in  his 
school-books,  and  whittle  out  gimcracks  with  his  penknife, 
and  pitch  stopes  or  a  ball  farther  and  higher  than  any  boy  in 
the  Academy,  when  he  ought  to  have  been  studying  his  les- 
sons." He  adds,  "  The  boy  was  very  like  the  man,  only  with 
age,  as  was  natural,  he  became  more  earnest,  persistent,  and 
methodical."1  He  entered  Harvard  College  in  1829,  complet- 
ing the  regular  course  and  graduating  in  1833.  He  took  no 
rank  as  a  scholar,  and  his  name  does  not  even  appear  among 
the  thirty-three  who  had  "  parts  "  at  Commencement. 

1  Contained  in  a  memoir  of  Professor  Wyman,  by  Dr.  O.  W.  Holmes,  in  the 
Atlantic  Monthly  for  November,  1874. 


JEFFRIES   WYMAN.  6l 

The  bent  of  his  mind  was,  however,  early  manifested,  and 
while  he  was  yet  an  undergraduate  much  of  his  time  was  spent 
in  the  dissection  and  preparation  of  anatomical  specimens. 

The  profession  of  medicine  seemed  to  offer  him  an  oppor- 
tunity for  the  continued  pursuit  of  his  favorite  occupations, 
and  under  the  guidance  of  Dr.  John  Call  Dalton  and  the 
counsel  of  his  own  father,  himself  a  physician  of  eminence, 
he  made  noted  progress,  taking  his  medical  degree  in  1837. 
Dr.  VVyman  seems  never  to  have  entered  on  the  practice  of 
his  profession,  which  appeared  to  have  no  more  charms  for 
him  than  for  Agassiz  and  Gray.  But  as  a  teacher  he  was 
devoted  to  the  numerous  medical  students  who  afterwards 
entered  his  laboratory.  His  remarkable  promise  as  a  student, 
however,  was  quickly  recognized.  His  first  appointment, 
after  he  had  taken  his  medical  degree,  was  as  Demonstrator 
to  Dr.  John  Collins  Warren,  the  Hersey  Professor  of  Anat- 
omy and  Surgery  in  Harvard  University,  whose  chair  he  was 
destined  to  fill.  Soon  after,  he  received  the  appointment  of 
Curator  of  the  Lowell  Institute.  In  1841,  he  delivered  a 
course  of  lectures  before  the  Institute,  and  with  the  money 
received  for  this  service  he  was  enabled  to  visit  Europe  for 
the  purpose  of  pursuing  his  favorite  branches  of  study.  He 
gave  his  time  chiefly  to  the  study  of  human  and  compara- 
tive anatomy,  and  natural  history  and  physiology,  attending 
the  lectures  of  the  most  distinguished  masters  of  Paris  and 
London.  He  was  thus  busied  when  the  news  of  his  father's 
death  summoned  him  back  to  his  home.  In  1843,  he  was 
appointed  Professor  of  Anatomy  and  Physiology  in  the  Medi- 
cal Department  of  Hampden  Sydney  College,  Richmond,  Va. 
This  position  he  resigned  in  1847,  at  which  time  he  was  chosen 
Hersey  Professor  of  Anatomy  at  Harvard  University.  To 
illustrate  two  lectures,  he  began  the  formation  of  that  Museum 
of  Comparative  Anatomy  to  which  the  best  energies  of  his 
life  were  devoted,  and  which  to-day  remains  the  most  elo- 
quent memorial  of  his  skill  and  industry. 


62  THE   CLASS    OF    1833. 

Nothing  can  convey  so  good  an  impression  of  Professor 
Wyman's  life  for  the  next  twenty  years  as  the  following 
extract  from  the  Memoir  by  Dr.  Holmes  referred  to  above. 

"  He  made  several  voyages,  partly,  at  least,  with  the  object 
of  making  additions  to  his  collections;  one  in  1849  to  Labra- 
dor, where  he  came  into  relation  with  the  Esquimaux  and 
learned  something  of  their  mode  of  living. 

"  In  the  spring  of  1833,  while  a  senior  in  college,  he  had 
suffered  from  a  dangerous  attack  of  pneumonia,  which  seems 
to  have  laid  the  foundation  of  the  pulmonary  affection  that 
kept  him  an  invalid  and  ended  by  causing  his  death.  The 
state  of  his  health  made  it  necessary  for  him  to  seek 
a  warmer  climate,  and  in  1852  he  went  to  Florida,  which 
he  continued  to  visit  during  many  subsequent  years;  for 
the  last  time  during  the  spring  of  1874.  Besides  these 
annual  migrations,  he  revisited  Europe  in  1854  and  1870, 
and  made  a  voyage  to  Surinam  in  1856,  and  one  to  La 
Plata  in  1858. 

"  All  these  excursions  and  seasons  of  exile,  rendered  neces- 
sary by  illness,  were  made  tributary  to  his  scientific  enterprise. 
His  Museum  kept  on  steadily  growing,  and  the  students  who 
worked  under  his  direction  or  listened  to  his  lectures,  the 
associations  with  which  he  was  connected,  and  the  scientific 
journals,  reaped  the  rich  fruit  of  his  observations  and  his 
investigations  during  these  frequent  and  long  periods  of 
absence. 

"  So  he  went  on  working  for  about  twenty  years,  quietly, 
happily,  not  stimulated  by  loud  applause,  not  striking  the 
public  eye  with  any  glitter  to  be  seen  afar  off,  but  with  a 
mild  halo  about  him  which  was  as  real  to  those  with  whom 
he  had  his  daily  walk  and  conversation,  as  the  nimbus  around 
a  saint's  head  in  an  altar-piece." 

It  was  near  the  end  of  these  twenty  years,  in  1866,  that 
Mr.  George  Peabody  laid  the  foundation  of  an  archaeologi- 
cal and  ethnological  museum.  The  position  of  Curator  was 


JEFFRIES   WYMAN.  63 

offered  to  Professor  Wyman,  and  he  entered  with  the  enthu- 
siasm of  youth  upon  its  duties.  This  office,  and  that  of 
Hersey  Professor  of  Anatomy,  he  held  until  the  time  of  his 
death. 

From  1856  to  1870,  when  the  state  of  his  health  forced 
him  to  resign,  he  held  the  office  of  President  of  the  Boston 
Society  of  Natural  History.  In  1857  he  was  chosen  Presi- 
dent of  the  American  Association  for  the  Promotion  of 
Science.  He  never  courted  such  honors,  —  they  came  to 
him  unsought. 

In  August,  1874,  after  putting  both  his  museums  in  perfect 
order,  Dr.  Wyman  went  to  the  White  Mountains.  He  had 
experienced  several  slight  attacks  of  bleeding,  and  when 
temporarily  at  Bethlehem  he  had  a  sudden  and  copious 
hemorrhage,  which  proved  fatal,  on  Friday,  September  4. 
On  the  next  Tuesday  his  funeral  services  were  held  at 
Appleton  Chapel  in  Cambridge,  and  he  was  interred  at 
Mount  Auburn.  The  following  classmates  acted  as  pall- 
bearers: Welch,  Whitney,  Prichard,  H.  W.  Torrey,  Bowen, 
Levering,  and  Higginson. 

At  the  next  meeting  of  the  Boston  Society  of  Natural 
History,  of  which  Dr.  Wyman  had  been  so  long  President, 
Dr.  Asa  Gray  delivered  a  memorial  address,  in  the  course 
of  which,  after  stating  that  Dr.  Wyman  was  a  believer  in  the 
theory  of  evolution,  he  said,  "  Holding  to  this  theory,  he  was 
an  earliest  Theist,  and  a  devout  and  habitual  attendant  upon 
Christian  worship,  and  the  psalm,  '  The  heavens  declare  the 
glory  of  God,'  had  never  more  fitting  place  at  funeral  ser- 
vice than  when  the  words  were  said  over  Jeffries  Wyman." 
At  the  conclusion  of  the  address,  the  following  resolutions 
were  adopted. 

"  Resolved,  That  in  the  death  of  Jeffries  Wyman  the  Boston 
Society  of  Natural  History  mourns  the  loss  of  a  most  honored 
member  and  efficient  officer,  —  one  who  was  untiring  in  his 


64  THE   CLASS   OF    1833. 

labors  for  the  society  during  his  long  and  active  connection 
with  it  as  Curator,  Secretary,  and  President;  and  that  in  his 
death  science  has  lost  a  most  thorough  and  careful  investi- 
gator, and  the  cause  of  education  and  truth  a  most  devoted 
and  conscientious  disciple. 

"  Resolved,  That  as  members  of  a  society  who  gave  to 
Professor  Wyman  the  highest  honor  and  position  we  could 
bestow,  we  acknowledge  our  indebtedness  to  him  for  the 
thoroughness  and  care  with  which  he  guided  our  labors  for 
so  many  years,  and,  while  filled  with  sorrow  at  our  own  loss, 
we  ask  the  privilege,  by  transmission  of  these  resolutions,  of 
extending  our  sympathy  to  his  bereaved  family  in  their  great 
trial." 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Overseers  held,  a  few  weeks 
after  Dr.  Wyman's  death,  in  Memorial  Hall,  Cambridge,  the 
Hon.  Charles  Francis  Adams,  President  of  the  Board,  in  the 
chair,  Dr.  Edward  H.  Clarke,  from  a  committee  appointed 
at  the  previous  meeting,  submitted  the  following  tribute  to 
Professor  Wyman,  which  was  adopted  and  ordered  to  be 
entered  on  their  records. 

"  The  Overseers  of  Harvard  College  desire  to  express  their 
sense  of  the  great  loss  which  the  University,  the  cause  of 
science,  and  the  community  have  sustained  in  the  death  of 
Dr.  Jeffries  Wyman. 

"They  recognize  in  him  a  man  whose  uprightness  of 
character,  singleness  of  aim,  purity  of  manners,  and  devo- 
tion to  duty,  presented  to  the  community  in  which  he  lived 
a  noble  example  of  a  life  well  spent. 

"  Science  found  in  him  an  ardent,  patient,  intelligent,  and 
loyal  disciple.  Indefatigable  in  the  pursuit  of  truth,  suc- 
cessful in  tracing  nature's  hidden  footsteps,  conscientious  in 
drawing  conclusions  from  his  investigations,  modest  to  a 
degree  rarely  known  in  asserting  his  rightful  claims  as  a 
scientific  discoverer,  he  was  unexcelled  as  a  comparative 


JEFFRIES   WYMAN.  65 

anatomist.  His  researches  have  increased  the  sum  of  human 
knowledge. 

"  As  a  teacher  he  earned  and  deserved  not  only  the  respect 
but  the  admiration  of  those  he  instructed,  and  to  whom  he 
communicated  with  singular  success  something  of  his  own 
constant  and  impartial  love  of  truth.  His  labors  have  hon- 
ored and  enriched  the  University. 

"  Resolved,  That  in  grateful  remembrance  of  his  character 
and  services,  this  tribute  to  his  memory  be  placed  upon  the 
records  of  the  Board  of  Overseers,  and  that  a  copy  of  it  be 
transmitted  to  his  family." 

The  following  lines  appeared  in  "  The  Nation  "  for  October, 
1874. 

JEFFRIES    WYMAN, 
DIED  SEPTEMBER  4,  1874. 

THE  wisest  man  could  ask  no  more  of  Fate 

Than  to  be  simple,  modest,  manly,  true, 

Safe  from  the  Many,  honored  by  the  Few ; 

Nothing  to  court  in  World,  or  Church,  or  State ; 

But  inwardly  in  secret  to  be  great ; 

To  feel  mysterious  Nature  ever  new, 

To  touch,  if  not  to  grasp,  her  endless  clew, 

And  learn  by  each  discovery  how  to  wait ; 

To  widen  knowledge  and  escape  the  praise ; 

Wisely  to  teach,  because  more  wise  to  learn ; 

To  toil  for  Science,  not  to  draw  men's  gaze, 

But  for  her  lore  of  self-denial  stern  ; 

That  such  a  man  could  spring  from  our  decays 

Fans  the  soul's  nobler  faith  until  it  burn.  J.  R.  L. 

Professor  Wyman  married,  December  19,  1850,  Adeline, 
daughter  of  William  and  Susan  C.  Wheelwright,  of  New  York, 
and,  secondly,  August  15,  1861,  Annie  Williams,  daughter 
of  Benjamin  Duick  (H.  C.  1828)  and  Elizabeth  (Williams) 
Whitney.  His  first  wife  died  June  25,  1855,  leaving  two 

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66  THE   CLASS   OF    1833. 

daughters,  —  Susan,  born  September  15,  1851,  and  Mary  Mor- 
rill,  born  May  15,  1855.  The  second  wife  died  February  20, 
1864,  leaving  one  son,  Jeffries,  born  February  3,  1864. 

Any  notice  of  Jeffries  Wyman,  designed  for  the  class, 
should  not  fail  to  mention  the  constant  interest  he  felt  for 
his  classmates. 

A  year  after  our  pleasant  gathering  at  Professor  Bowen's 
house  on  the  Commencement  of  1867,  Wyman  sent  the 
following  note  to  the  Secretary:  "I  shall  be  proud  to  have 
my  Laboratory  at  the  disposal  of  the  class  on  Commence- 
ment day,  if  anatomical  associations  are  not  too  much  for 
them.  Clary,  the  colored  '  Mills,'  who  cooled  our  cider  for 
us  two  years  ago,  will,  I  have  no  doubt,  be  glad  to  officiate 
again  in  the  same  capacity,  and  will  insure,  as  far  as  in  him 
lies,  '  quod  bonum,  faustum,  felixque  sit,'  being  well  served." 
Accordingly,  that  year,  and  in  1869,  1870,  and  1871,  those  of 
us  who  were  in  Cambridge  met  there.  In  1872,  the  Secretary 
being  in  Europe,  no  meeting  took  place.  But  in  1873  these 
gatherings  were  resumed.  Since  Professor  Wyman's  death, 
however,  none  have  been  held.  No  one  who  was  present  at 
these  reunions  can  ever  forget  the  affectionate  cordiality  of 
his  greeting. 


WILLIAM   DEHON. 

T  T  7ILLIAM  DEHON  was  born  in  Boston,  February  2, 
•  »  1814.  He  was  the  son  of  William  and  Betsey  (Bicker) 
Dehon,  and  nephew  of  Bishop  Dehon  of  South  Carolina 
(H.  C.  1795).  On  the  father's  side  he  was  of  French 
descent. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Boston  Latin  School,  under 
Benjamin  Apthorp  Gould  (H.  C.  1814),  of  whom  he  used  to 
speak  with  affection  and  respect.  He  entered  Harvard  Col- 


WILLIAM   DEMON.  67 

lege  in  the  class  of  1833  ;  but  having  failed  to  pay  his  college 
dues  within  the  prescribed  time,  in  consequence  of  a  sudden 
summons  to  the  death-bed  of  his  youngest  brother,  he  did 
not  take  his  degree  with  the  class.  The  degree  was  however 
given  him  after  a  year's  delay. 

At  Harvard,  he  had  the  advantage  of  an  early  development 
of  extremely  good  manners.  This  gave  him  an  influence  in 
class  gatherings  always  attendant  upon  this  accomplishment. 
To  it  he  owed  in  part  his  election  as  President  of  the  Institute 
of  1770.  He  was  Librarian  of  the  Porcellian  Club,  and  always 
one  of  the  leaders  in  that  coterie,  —  between  whom  and  the 
Hasty  Pudding  Club  there  were  then  "  no  dealings." 

His  scholarship  was  sufficiently  good  to  enable  him  to  have 
Parts  at  the  two  exhibitions  and  at  Commencement.     At  the 
Junior  Exhibition  (Oct.  18,  1831),  he  took  the  part  of  Brutus 
in  a  Latin  dialogue. 
A  Dialogue  in  Latin.     "  Caesar,  Brutus,  and  Flavius." 

LUTHER  CLARK,  Waltham. 
WILLIAM  DEHON,  Boston. 
THOMAS  WIGGLESWORTH,  Boston. 

His  position  on  the  programme  of  the  Senior  Exhibition 
(Oct.  16,  1832)  indicates  an  improvement  in  rank:  — 

A  Forensic  Disputation.  "  Whether  the  Utilitarian  Character  of  the 
Present  Age  be  more  conducive  to  Intellectual  Improvement 
than  the  Chivalrous  Character  of  the  Middle  Ages." 

WILLIAM  DEHON,  Boston. 

HENRY  YANCEY  GRAY,  Charleston,  S.  C. 

His  position  on  the  Commencement  programme  (Aug.  28, 
1833)  indicates  still  higher  rank;  but  he  did  not  speak. 

A  Literary  Discussion.  "  The  Poet  of  an  Early  Age  and  of  a  Civil- 
ized one." 

WILLIAM  DEHON,  Boston. 

CHARLES  ALFRED  WELCH,  Boston. 

While  in  college,  his  father  failed  in  business,  on  account 
of  the  dishonesty  of  others,  and  died  shortly  afterwards. 


68  THE  CLASS   OF   1833. 

In  consequence  he  was  in  straitened  circumstances  during 
the  latter  part  of  his  college  course  and  for  some  years 
afterwards. 

Immediately  after  leaving  college  he  entered  as  a  student 
the  law  office  of  Hon.  Charles  G.  Loring.  There  he  dis- 
played such  marked  ability,  that,  on  being  admitted  to  the 
Suffolk  Bar  (July,  1836),  he  was  taken  into  partnership. 
During  all  this  time,  and  afterwards,  he  was  the  head  of  his 
widowed  mother's  house,  making  himself  responsible  for  her 
comfort  and  that  of  his  sisters,  and  as  soon  as  possible  con- 
tributing largely  to  their  support. 

The  new  partnership  —  then  composed  of  Messrs.  C.  G. 
and  F.  C.  Loring  and  William  Dehon  —  in  which  the  last 
remained  till  the  summer  of  1844 — did  more  business  than 
any  other  law  firm  in  Boston,  save  perhaps  that  of  Messrs. 
C.  P.  and  B.  R.  Curtis. 

In  1844  Dehon  opened  an  office  by  himself.  For  the  next 
fifteen  years  he  enjoyed  a  large  practice  of  the  best  kind. 
Concerning  much  of  his  subsequent  career,  Mr.  John  D. 
Bryant,  who  became  his  partner,  writes  a  letter,  from  which 
the  following  extracts  are  taken. 

"  My  first  acquaintance  with  Mr.  Dehon  was  in  the  fall  of 
1854,  when  I  became  a  law  student  in  his  office.  He  was 
then  at  the  height  of  his  professional  success,  and  was  enjoy- 
ing the  rewards  of  a  well-earned  reputation.  The  judicial 
qualities  of  his  mind  caused  him  to  be  largely  sought  for, 
at  this  period,  as  a  referee.  In  this  capacity,  he  aided  in 
the  decision,  out  of  court,  within  the  first  five  years  of  the 
writer's  acquaintance  with  him,  of  causes  of  great  commer- 
cial importance  and  involving  large  sums  of  money.  This 
practice  was  not  of  a  kind  to  bring  him  prominently  before 
the  public,  or  to  win  for  him  popular  applause.  But  it 
brought  him  what  he  valued  more,  the  reputation,  with  the 
profession  and  with  laymen  conversant  with  the  profession, 
of  a  sound  lawyer  and  a  discriminate  judge.  The  writer  has 


WILLIAM    DEHON.  69 

been  told  by  one  who  recently  occupied  the  highest  judicial 
position  in  this  Commonwealth,  and  who  now  sits  on  the 
bench  of  the  highest  court  in  the  nation,  that  Mr.  Dehon 
might  long  ago  have  held  a  place  on  our  Supreme  Bench 
had  he  been  so  disposed.  His  work  was  done  with  the 
facility  indicative  of  genius,  rather  than  with  the  tedious  toil 
of  the  plodder.  His  written  productions,  such  as  opinions 
and  legal  instruments,  were  at  the  same  time  distinguished 
by  a  clear  comprehension  of  the  principles  involved,  and  by 
terseness  and  accuracy  of  expression." 

The  only  public  civil  service  of  Dehon  was  as  one  of  the 
Convention  of  1853,  to  revise  the  Constitution  of  Massachu- 
setts, —  an  assembly  distinguished  by  the  high  character  of 
its  members. 

Dehon  had  married,  December  26,  1839,  Caroline  Maria 
Inches,  daughter  of  Henderson  Inches,  a  well-known  citizen  of 
Boston.  She  possessed  great  beauty,  and  singular  loveliness 
of  character.  She  died  December  29,  1859,  leaving  two  sons 
and  one  daughter.  After  her  death  his  own  health  gave  way, 
and  he  never  again  attempted  the  harder  work  of  his  profes- 
sion. Mrs.  Dehon's  serious  illness  for  the  last  two  years  of  her 
life  had  withdrawn  him  from  his  office  and  business  cares.  "I 
seem,"  he  said  to  Mr.  Bryant,  "  compelled  to  choose  whether 
I  will  neglect  my  profession  or  my  wife;  and  it  certainly 
shall  not  be  my  wife." 

"  From  the  death  of  Mrs.  Dehon,"  adds  Mr.  Bryant,  "  Mr. 
Dehon  seemed  to  lose  interest  in  his  profession.  He  sought 
relief  from  his  afflictions  in  rural  pursuits,  devoting  much  of 
his  time  to  horticulture,  and  making  for  himself  and  family 
a  suburban  home  in  Quincy." 

From  1858  to  1864  he  was  interested  in  the  Quincy  Horse 
Railroad,  of  which  he  was  President  and  a  large  stockholder. 
It  proved,  however,  more  profitable  to  the  public  than  to 
the  owners. 

His  political  idol  had  always  been  Daniel  Webster.     He 


70  THE  CLASS  OF   1833. 

believed  his  teachings  fully  sanctioned  the  maintenance  of 
the  Union  at  any  cost.  So,  when  Fort  Sumter  was  fired 
upon,  he  sided  with  the  government  in  its  efforts  to  put  down 
the  rebellion.  It  was  not  long  before  opportunity  offered  for 
him  to  render  great  service  to  the  national  cause. 

April  20,  1861,  Fletcher  Webster  undertook  to  raise  an 
additional  regiment  for  the  war.  An  enthusiastic  meeting 
was  held  the  next  day  in  State  Street,  Boston,  though  it 
was  Sunday,  to  take  measures  for  raising  "  the  Webster 
Regiment."  Into  this  design  Dehon  threw  himself  with 
great  ardor,  and  was  put  at  the  head  of  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee appointed  at  the  meeting. 

He  had  been  from  boyhood  the  intimate  friend  of  the  gal- 
lant man  who,  at  forty-seven,  proposed  to  enter  upon  the  hard- 
ships and  dangers  of  campaign  life,  and  well  did  he  respond  at 
this  crisis  to  the  calls  of  friendship  and  patriotism.  < 

Mr.  John  D.  Bryant,  who  was  at  that  time  in  the  best 
position  for  knowledge,  speaking  of  Dehon's  labors  before 
the  regiment  was  mustered  into  service,  says :  — 

"  He  generally  did  all  that  man  could  do  for  the  organi- 
zation and  success  of  the  regiment.  The  arnount  of  his 
pecuniary  contributions,  first  and  last,  to  it,  I  cannot  state; 
but  if  time  is  money,  I  think  he  gave  more  than  any  other, 
almost  more  than  all  others." 

Besides  giving  thus  of  his  time  and  energy,  he  sent  to  the 
field  his  eldest  son  Arthur,  who  first  served  as  Lieutenant 
in  the  I2th  (Webster)  Regiment.  In  this  capacity,  after  the 
second  battle  of  Bull  Run,  where  Colonel  Webster  fell,  this 
young  officer  returned  to  the  field,  at  imminent  risk  to  him- 
self, and  succeeded  in  finding  the  body.  He  buried  it  with 
his  own  hands,  but  afterwards,  having  obtained  an  ambulance, 
went  back,  and  removed  it.  Its  subsequent  transmission  to 
Boston  was  then  procured  by  the  untiring  efforts  of  Lieu- 
tenant Dehon,  without  which,  his  biographer  (Mr.  O.  W. 
Holmes,  Jr.)  writes,  it  would  never  have  been  sent. 


JOHN   O.   STONE.  71 

It  was  fit  that  the  son  should  thus  piously  perform  the  last 
services  for  one  to  whom  the  father  had  been  so  devoted. 
Three  months  afterwards,  that  son  himself  fell  at  Fredericks- 
burg,  while  serving  on  the  staff  of  General  Meade,  and  when 
carrying  an  important  order  for  his  commander. 

In  1867  Dehon  lost  his  youngest  son,  Henderson,  then  a 
Senior  at  Harvard,  who  died  in  Boston  after  a  short  illness. 
He  was  a  young  man  of  great  promise,  whose  death  was 
sincerely  mourned  by  all  who  knew  him. 

In  1871  Dehon  went  to  Europe  with  his  only  surviving 
child,  (the  wife  of  Prof.  A.  S.  Hill,  of  Cambridge,)  and  her 
family.  Returning  in  1873,  he  lived  a  retired  life  in  Boston 
till  his  death,  May  20,  1875. 


JOHN   OSGOOD   STONE. 

JOHN  O.  STONE  was  born  in  Salem,  Mass.,  February  I, 
1813.  His  father  was  Robert  Stone,  for  many  years  an 
East  India  merchant  in  that  town.  His  mother  was  Rebecca, 
daughter  of  Captain  John  Osgood,  also  a  merchant  of  the 
same  place. 

Dr.  Stone  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Salem  Latin 
School,  and  entered  Harvard  in  1829. 

He  was  a  respectable  scholar  at  Cambridge,  and  had  a 
part  at  graduation.  William  M.  Prichard  says  of  him :  — 

"  Dr.  Stone  had  in  college  a  certain  bluff  sincerity,  which 
he  retained  through  life.  ...  He  was  not  ambitious  of  mere 
college  distinction,  devoting  himself  to  such  studies  as  suited 
his  tastes  and  purposes,  rather  than  attempting  to  master  the 
whole  prescribed  routine  of  the  University." 

After  graduating  he  entered  the  Harvard  Medical  School, 
and  in  commencing  the  study  of  the  profession  of  his  choice 
he  showed  new  zeal  and  increased  diligence,  because  his 


72  THE   CLASS   OF    1833. 

heart  was  in  the  work.  After  receiving  his  degree  as  Doctor 
of  Medicine  in  1836,  he  continued  for  a  time  under  his 
previous  teacher,  Dr.  William  J.  Walker,  who  was  one  of  the 
most  distinguished  surgeons  of  the  time. 

He  next  visited  Europe,  and  spent  nearly  two  years  in  the 
hospitals  and  lecture-rooms  of  London  and  Paris. 

On  his  return  he  became  established,  in  the  autumn  of 
1838,  in  the  city  of  New  York,  and  devoted  himself  with 
ardor  to  the  duties  of  his  profession.  He  served  as  physician 
at  the  New  York  Dispensary  from  1845  to  r^47>  and  was 
subsequently,  from  1855  to  1861,  one  of  its  trustees.  About 
1850  he  became  one  of  the  attending  surgeons  of  the  Belle- 
vue  Hospital.  This  post  he  filled  for  seven  years,  and  then 
felt  bound  to  retire  on  account  of  his  increasing  private 
practice.  Commencing  without  any  special  influence  or 
acquaintance,  he  won  his  way  steadily;  and  as  he  gained 
patients,  his  personal  qualities  made  them  friends. 

Rev.  Dr.  Henry  W.  Bellows  says  of  him :  — 

"  Few  men  were  more  affectionate  in  disposition,  and  took  a 
livelier  interest  in  those  committed  to  their  professional  care. 
His  cordial  smile  in  the  sick-room  was  a  medicine  in  itself. 
...  I  have  seldom  known  a  man  who  had  more  genuine  con- 
fidence in  the  safety  and  value  of  truth.  .  .  .  Perhaps  he  would 
have  risen  to  a  more  positive  exceptional  eminence,  if  he  had 
not  always  been  somewhat  independent  in  his  circumstances, 
or  had  possessed  a  more  selfish  and  exacting  ambition.  But 
he  was  not  clamorous  for  honor.  .  .  .  He  belonged  to  the 
highest  grade  of  the  pure  physician,  and  it  is  to  be  doubted 
whether  Dr.  Stone  had  many  superiors  in  that  class." 

In  our  civil  war  Dr.  Stone  went  several  times,  with  other 
surgeons,  to  aid  the  suffering  after  the  great  battles  in  Penn- 
sylvania, Maryland,  and  Virginia,  and  while  in  charge  of  the 
wounded  Confederates  at  Williamsburg  and  Yorktown  they 
became  so  attached  to  him  as  to  beg  him  to  remain  per- 
manently. 


JOHN   O.   STONE.  73 

He  was  one  of  the  earliest  members  of  a  society  formed 
for  the  relief  of  widows  and  orphans  of  medical  men.  After 
serving  it  in  various  capacities  for  many  years,  he  was  elected 
its  President  from  1872  to  1874. 

When  the  Metropolitan  Board  of  Health  was  established 
in  New  York,  Dr.  Stone  was  appointed  one  of  the  Commis- 
sioners. He  held  the  office  during  the  whole  existence  of 
the  Board,  which  was  four  years,  from  1866  to  1869  inclusive. 
The  reputation  of  this  organization  for  effective  and  non- 
partisan  work  is  well  established,  and  no  small  part  of  its 
success  may  be  attributed  to  the  energy  of  Dr.  Stone. 

Dr.  J.  H.  Emerson,  Dr.  Stone's  medical  partner,  says  of 
him  in  this  office :  — 

"  His  sturdy  integrity,  shrewd  common  sense,  great  execu- 
tive ability,  and  directness  of  purpose,  materially  aided  his 
able  coadjutors  in  establishing  the  new  Board  in  the  good 
opinion  of  the  medical  profession  and  the  public.  He  in- 
spired the  greatest  confidence  in  the  young  medical  men  who 
were  selected  as  Health  Inspectors,  for  they  quickly  found 
that  merit,  and  no  meretricious  service,  was  the  only  way  to 
secure  his  friendship  and  support." 

One  of  his  colleagues  on  the  Board,  Dr.  James  Crane  of 
Brooklyn,  thus  writes :  — 

"There  was  something  about  him  which  at  once  secured 
confidence.  His  large,  well-shaped  head,  and  broad,  over- 
hanging brow,  his  plain  and  unpretending  outward  appear- 
ance, his  somewhat  austere  and  self-reliant  manner,  all  gave 
assurance  of  the  vigor  and  breadth  of  his  latent  powers.  He 
was  an  honest  man,  and  his  integrity  was  unflinching  and  un- 
spotted. Amply  liberal  and  conciliatory  in  his  differences 
with  the  opinions  of  others,  he  held  to  his  own  convictions 
with  unyielding  adherence.  In  our  frequent  deliberations 
the  question  of  mere  policy  never  seemed  to  arise  in  his 
mind,  but  right  and  truth  had  to  be  the  absolute  conditions 
of  all  procedures.  This  was  his  eminent  characteristic." 

10 


74  THE   CLASS   OF   1833. 

Dr.  Stone  always  took  an  interest  in  his  Alma  Mater,  and 
gave  heartily  to  its  needs.  In  1868  he  was  chosen  President 
of  the  Harvard  Club  of  New  York,  and  served  a  year  in 
that  capacity.  The  following  note  in  this  connection  speaks 
for  itself.  It  is  to  the  Secretary,  under  date  of  August 
1 6,  1864.  "  Let  me  have  three  copies  of  the  Harvard 
Necrology.  These  will  be  more  than  enough  for  me  during 
these  times,  when  every  cent  should  be  spent  to  assist  the 
government  or  encourage  the  soldiers." 

On  June  7,  1876,  Dr.  Stone  saw  his  patients,  and  appeared 
as  usual,  but  about  noon,  whilst  crossing  Broadway  near 
Liberty  Street,  he  suddenly  fell,  and  expired  immediately, 
from  disease  of  the  heart,  —  a  death  which  he  had  ex- 
pected. 

His  biographer1  thus  sums  up  his  life  and  character,  in  a 
passage  which  finds  its  echo  in  many  hearts :  — 

"  The  story  of  his  life  is  one  unbroken  record  of  honest 
and  intelligent  usefulness;  of  absolute  loyalty  to  every  duty; 
of  great  kindness  in  the  sturdy  maintenance  of  his  own  ideas 
of  justice  and  truth." 

In  December,  1848,  Dr.  Stone  married  Catherine  C., 
daughter  of  the  late  Patrick  T.  Jackson,  an  eminent  mer- 
chant of  Boston.  They  had  five  children,  viz.  Annie,  Ellen 
J.,  Robert,  Sarah  J.,  and  John.  Both  sons  died:  John  in 
1860,  when  an  infant;  Robert  in  1867,  when  nearly  fifteen 
years  of  age.  The  youngest  daughter,  Sarah,  married,  Oc- 
tober 22,  1 88 1,  Mr.  Edwin  Morgan  Grinnell  of  New  York. 
They  have  one  child,  a  daughter,  born  December  9,  1882. 

1  Dr.  John  C.  Peters,  who  prepared  a  memoir  of  Dr.  Stone  for  the  New 
York  Academy  of  Medicine,  to  which  the  Secretary  has  been  much  indebted  in 
preparing  this  sketch. 


JOSIAH   RUTTER.  75 


JOSIAH   RUTTER. 

JOSIAH  RUTTER,  son  of  Micah  Maynard  and  Nancy 
(Plympton)  Rutter,  was  born  at  East  Sudbury,  now  Way- 
land,  Mass.,  March  2,  1813.  His  father,  a  farmer  by  occupa- 
tion, was  Major-General  of  militia,  Deputy  Sheriff",  and  for 
several  years  State  Senator.  He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the 
Framingham  and  Stow  Academies,  and  entered  as  Freshman 
in  1829.  As  an  undergraduate  he  was  unexceptionable  in 
conduct,  but  took  no  rank  as  a  scholar.  Modest  and  retiring, 
he  did  not  show  the  talent  and  character  he  afterwards  mani- 
fested. Through  the  four  years  of  college  life  he  was  the 
chum  of  Charles  Draper,  who  came  from  the  same  section  of 
the  State,  and  "  Rutter  and  Draper"  have  a  very  familiar 
sound  to  the  Class. 

After  leaving  college  he  had  charge  of  the  VValtham  High 
School,  and  afterwards  kept  a  private  school  in  Brighton. 
He  then  studied  law  in  Wayland  with  Judge  Mellen,  and  at 
the  same  time  taught  the  languages  in  the  High  School  of 
that  town. 

Having  been  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Middlesex  County,  he 
established  himself  as  a  lawyer  in  VValtham,  in  July,  1843. 
A  few  years  after,  January  u,  1848,  he  married  Abby  E. 
Baldwin.  He  died  September  3,  1876,  of  apoplexy,  at  the 
age  of  sixty-three  years  and  six  months,  leaving  four  sons : 
William  Baldwin,  born  November  9,  1848;  Frederic  Plymp- 
ton, born  August  16,  1851  ;  Frank  Josiah,  born  September  8, 
1854;  and  Nathaniel  Plympton,  born  July  25,  1857.  Of 
these  the  second  and  third  sons  are  married,  and  the  former 
has  issue. 

From  the  notices  of  his  death  published  in  the  Waltham 
papers  the  following  extracts  are  made. 

"  A  near  neighbor "  writes :  "  He  was  widely  known  and 


76  THE  CLASS  OF  1833. 

universally  respected  among  the  members  of  the  bar,  and 
every  client  he  defended  was  a  firm  friend  for  life.  He  was 
the  first  to  receive  the  appointment  of  Trial  Justice  in  this 
section,  and  held  the  position  for  about  fifteen  years,  resign- 
ing about  two  years  since.  Though  of  late  years  he  has 
taken  but  little  active  part  in  political  and  town  affairs,  in 
times  gone  by  he  was  prominently  identified  with  town  and 
public  interests.  He  represented  the  town  in  the  legislature 
for  one  term,  and  for  a  period  covering  at  least  fifteen  years 
was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Selectmen,  and  was  Chairman 
of  the  Board  during  the  largest  portion  of  his  term  of  service. 
For  an  equal  term  he  was  Chairman  of  the  School  Board ; 
and  hundreds  of  the  young  of  both  sexes  would  testify  to  his 
faithful  and  assiduous  efforts  for  the  educational  interests  of 
the  town.  For  many  years  he  was  a  Director  of  the  Waltham 
Bank.  On  the  Fourth  of  July  last  he  delivered  the  Centen- 
nial Oration  on  the  Common.  Mr.  Rutter  was  a  gentleman 
of  culture  and  scholarly  attainments.  His  writings  were 
models  of  conciseness,  and  he  expressed  his  thought  in 
the  choicest  words  of  the  English  language.  When  moved 
by  the  death  of  a  friend,  his  writings  were  exceptionally 
eloquent,  and  no  more  touching  and  expressive  words  were 
spoken  in  memory  of  the  lamented  Sumner  than  those  tcr 
which  he  gave  utterance.  He  was  courteous  in  his  man- 
ner, retiring  in  his  disposition,  and  honorable  in  all  his 
dealings." 

The  following  is  from  an  editorial  in  the  Waltham  Free 
Press :  — 

"  There  is  no  better  or  more  lasting  monument  to  a  man's 
memory  than  that  reverence  and  respect  he  has  awakened 
among  the  more  lowly.  It  was  the  fortune  of  but  few  men 
who  have  mingled  to  any  extent  in  public  affairs  to  become  so 
popular  among  the  laboring  classes  as  did  Mr.  Rutter,  and  there 
were  always  many  willing  to  do  a  favor  for  the  '  Squire,'  as 
he  was  familiarly  called.  The  position  of  Trial  Justice,  which 


DAVID  STODDARD  GREENOUGH.         77 

he  held  for  so  many  years,  is  one  a  man  would  not  seek,  if  he 
would  be  popular  with  the  masses;  and  yet  few  persons ^had 
a  smaller  number  of  enemies.  His  manner  of  conducting  a 
legal  suit  was  always  satisfactory  to  his  clients,  and  it  is  said 
that  the  hundreds  he  has  defended  were  stanch  friends  for 
life." 

A  few  days  after  his  death  the  Waltham  Sentinel  repub- 
lished  a  poem  of  Mr.  Rutter's,  entitled  "  Crazy  Loker,"  which 
was  written  for  that  paper  twelve  years  before.  This,  occupy- 
ing nearly  two  columns  of  the  paper,  well  sustains  the  opinion 
of  "  a  near  neighbor  "  by  the  conciseness  of  the  narration,  and 
by  the  ease  and  harmony  of  the  verse. 


DAVID   STODDARD    GREENOUGH. 

DAVID  STODDARD  GREENOUGH  was  born  in  the 
old  Greenough  mansion  at  Jamaica  Plain,  Roxbury, 
Mass.,  July  10,  1814.  His  father  (H.  C.  1805)  and  grand- 
father were  of  the  same  name.  His  mother,  Maria  F.  Doane, 
was  the  only  daughter  of  Elijah  Doane,  of  Cohasset  (H.  C. 
1781).  His  father  practised  law,  and  might  have  attained 
eminence  in  his  profession  had  he  felt  the  stimulus  of  neces- 
sity. He  died  in  1830,  when  his  son  was  in  his  Sophomore 
year. 

In  college  our  classmate  took  respectable  rank  as  a  scholar, 
and  had  at  Commencement  when  we  graduated  a  part  entitled, 
"  A  Conference.  '  Common  Sense,  Genius,  and  Learning. 
Their  Characteristics,  Comparative  Value,  and  Success."  "  His 
companions  were  George  Inglis  Crafts,  of  South  Carolina,  and 
Fletcher  Webster.  His  name  occurring  between  the  other 
two  denotes  that  it  was  "  Genius  "  whose  cause  he  was  assigned 
to  espouse.  He  was  an  officer  in  the  Harvard  Washington 
Corps,  and  had  the  Class  Poem  at  graduating.  On  leaving 


78  THE  CLASS   OF  1833. 

college,  he  studied  law,  and  took  the  degree  of  LL.  B.  in  1836. 
He  then  opened  an  office  in  Boston,  but  did  not  practise,  pre- 
ferring the  care  of  his  property  to  the  assiduous  toil  of  a  young 
lawyer.  He  was  for  some  years  Colonel  of  the  Independent 
Corps  of  Cadets,  as  his  father  had  been  before  him.  His 
health  began  to  fail  early.  The  last  ten  years  of  his  life  were 
spent  in  the  sick-chamber,  lame  (from  a  broken  hip-joint), 
stone  deaf,  and  every  organ  except  his  brain  partially  para- 
lyzed. He  bore  all  these  ills  with  a  rare  stoicism,  retaining 
ever  his  quickness  of  apprehension  and  wit.  In  spite  of  his 
infirmities,  he  could  hardly  be  said  to  be  life-weary  at  any 
time.  He  died  suddenly,  of  pneumonia,  March  30,  1877. 

He  married,  on  the  loth  of  October,  1843,  Anna  A.,  daugh- 
ter of  the  late  John  Parkman,  of  Brighton,  Mass.  They  had 
five  children,  —  four  sons  and  one  daughter.  Three  of  the 
former  survived  him:  David  Stoddard,  born  July  16,  1844; 
John,  born  March  25,  1846;  Arthur  Temple,  born  Decem- 
ber 3,  1857.  They  are  all  in  business  pursuits  and  pros- 
perous. The  eldest  and  second  son  (H.  C.  1865)  are  married. 
The  former  has  a  son. 


GEORGE  EATON. 

EORGE  EATON,  son  of  Amherst  and  Mary  (Marvin) 
Eaton,  was  born  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  where  his  father 
then  resided,  August  19,  1812.  He  was  fitted  for  college 
principally  at  the  Derby  Academy  in  Hingham.  In  college 
he  roomed  at  No.  3  Hollis,  chumming  with  our  classmate 
Sydney  Howard  Gay,  who  came  from  the  same  preparatory 
school. 

After  graduating,  he  kept  school  in  Stow,  Mass.  In  1837 
he  opened  a  school  for  young  ladies  in  Springfield.  He  was 
highly  esteemed  as  a  teacher,  and  his  school  was  in  every 


GEORGE  EATON.  79 

way  successful.  He  built  a  very  expensive  house,  however, 
on  a  valuable  lot,  given  him  by  his  father,  which  was  too 
much  for  his  means.  This  he  was  forced  to  mortgage,  and, 
after  years  of  embarrassment,  to  part  with.  It  proved,  in 
short,  his  pecuniary  ruin. 

He  left  Springfield  in  1845,  and  removed  to  Boston,  where 
he  opened  a  similar  school  in  Bumstead  Place. 

In  the  years  1852  and  1853  he  represented  his  district  in 
the  legislature.  In  the  latter  year  he  abandoned  his  school, 
being  advised  by  his  physician  to  seek  some  occupation  less 
confining.  But  in  the  year  1858  he  was  one  of  the  sub- 
masters  in  the  Boston  Latin  School. 

When  the  Webster  regiment  was  proposed,  in  the  spring 
of  1 86 1,  Eaton,  who  heartily  sympathized  with  that  patriotic 
enterprise,  was  placed  on  the  Executive  Committee  of  five, 
and  made  its  Secretary.  The  friends  of  the  undertaking  were 
bent  on  sparing  neither  money  nor  work  in  making  that 
regiment  the  best  yet  sent  forth  from  Boston,  and  the  office 
was  no  sinecure.  This  threw  him  into  intimacy  with  the 
Webster  coterie,  one  result  of  which  was  his  ultimately  be- 
coming guardian  of  Ashburton,  the  youngest  son  of  Fletcher 
Webster. 

In  1862  he  again  represented  Boston  in  the  General  Court. 
In  1863  he  became  manager  of  the  Quincy  Horse  Railroad, 
an  undertaking  of  which  his  classmate  Dehon  was  President, 
and  which  ultimately  proved  unsuccessful.  He  lived  in  the 
town  of  Quincy,  where  he  had  a  garden  and  nursery,  until 
1869,  when  he  went  to  the  city  of  Para,  South  America,  for 
the  purpose  of  introducing  horse  railroads  there.  He  con- 
tinued in  that  employment,  which  was  moderately  suc- 
cessful, until  1874.  In  the  course  of  it  he  went  four  times  to 
Brazil.  His  health,  however,  was  seriously  affected  by  the 
climate  of  South  America,  and  he  died,  May  7,  1877,  of 
Bright's  disease  of  the  kidneys,  at  Grantville,  Mass.,  where  his 
family  had  resided  since  1869. 


80  THE  CLASS   OF   1833. 

In  1838  he  married  Anne  Townsend  Moorfield,  of  Hing- 
ham,  Mass.,  to  whom  he  had  become  early  attached.  She 
was  the  daughter  of  Mr.  James  Moorfield,  for  some  years  a 
Cuban  merchant.  Mrs.  Eaton  died  in  the  spring  of  1868. 
They  had  eight  children,  only  three  of  whom  survived  him. 
These  are  Anna  Moorfield  Eaton,  born  May  22,  1847; 
Charles  Marion  Eaton,  born  August  20,  1849;  and  Hannah 
Andrew  Eaton,  born  January  22,  1852. 

George  Eaton  was  sixty-five  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He 
lived  a  life  of  frequent  change  and  excitement,  —  one  filled 
with  various  projects,  into  which  he  entered  with  the  ardor  of 
a  boy,  but  in  which  he  soon  found  perseverance  distasteful. 
He  was  kind  and  genial  in  his  feelings,  and  possessed  of 
pleasing  manners.  He  had  much  general  information,  and 
was  an  agreeable  talker.  His  record  in  the  legislature  was 
highly  respectable,  serving  on  the  Committee  on  Education, 
and  being  placed  second  on  the  list.  But  the  bright  hopes 
of  his  early  life  were  not  fulfilled. 


RICHARD  SHARPE  YOUNG. 

ICHARD  SHARPE  YOUNG  was  the  fourth  son  and 
J-  v  youngest  child  of  Alexander  and  Mary  (Loring)  Young. 
His  father  was  a  printer,  of  the  firm  of  Young  and  Minns, 
and  published  the  New  England  Palladium.  He  was  born 
in  Boston,  February  22,  1813. 

He  attended  the  Boylston  School,  and  afterwards  went  to 
the  Latin  School,  in  1824.  He  entered  college  in  1829,  and 
graduated  in  1833.  At  Commencement  he  had  a  part,  thus 
described  in  the  order  of  performances :  "  A  Conference. 
'  Contemporary  and  Subsequent  Narrations  of  Historical 
Events.'  Charles  Jarvis  Bates  and  Richard  Sharpe  Young." 


RICHARD   SHARPE  YOUNG.  8l 

An  incident  is  recalled  of  his  freshman  year.  During  that 
year,  some  of  the  class,  impatient  that  their  membership  in  the 
Institute  of  1770  was  so  long  deferred,  got  up  a  new  society 
for  literary  purposes.  This  was  called  the  I.  O.  H.,  which  at 
the  beginning  signified  "  Imitators  of  Henry,"  meaning  the 
Revolutionary  orator,  Patrick  Henry.  We  soon  became  aware 
of  the  flatness  of  the  name,  and  rather  ashamed  of  it,  which 
indeed  showed  we  had  come  to  college  at  fourteen  or  fifteen 
instead  of  eighteen.  How  to  change  the  name  and  still  pre- 
serve the  initials,  was  the  puzzle.  At  last  Young  extricated 
us  from  the  dilemma  by  suggesting  the  following :  "  Imita- 
tores  omnium  honestorum."  His  proposition  was  unani- 
mously accepted,  and  the  society  flourished  for  many  years. 

After  leaving  college,  Young  studied  medicine  with  Dr. 
Walker  of  Charlestown,  graduated  at  the  Harvard  Medical 
School  in  1837,  was  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  Medical 
Society,  and  practised  Medicine  in  Boston.  He  wrote  often 
for  the  press  over  the  signature  of  "  Digby."  In  1850  he 
went  to  California,  where  he  continued  the  practice  of  his 
profession  and  his  literary  labors.  In  the  midst  of  his  work 
he  was  seized  with  rheumatic  fever,  which  left  him  in  a  feeble 
state  of  health,  from  which  he  never  recovered.  His  hands 
were  bent  and  drawn  together,  so  that  he  was  obliged  to 
have  an  attendant  a  great  deal  of  the  time.  He  died  in  San 
Francisco,  August  9,  1877,  aged  sixty-four  years  and  five 
weeks,  and  his  body  was  buried  in  the  cemetery  at  Mount 
Auburn. 

The  testimony  of  those  who  knew  him  best  is  that  he 
was  very  kind  and  gentle,  generous,  unselfish,  and  that  he 
would  do  more  for  others  than  for  himself.  He  was  fond  of 
children,  and  played  with  them.  He  had  a  love  for  music, 
and  possessed  a  good  voice.  A  sensitive  disposition,  natu- 
rally shy  and  diffident,  made  him  reserved,  and  prevented 
him  from  doing  justice  to  his  powers. 

He  was  in  full  sympathy  with  the  movement  for  the  aboli- 

ii 


82  THE   CLASS   OF   1833. 

tion  of  slavery,  and  was  a  friend  of  Sumner  and  other  leaders 
in  that  struggle. 

Most  of  the  above  sketch  was  furnished  by  a  relative. 


CHRISTOPHER  MINOT  WELD. 

CHRISTOPHER  MINOT  WELD  was  the  son  of  William 
V-<  Gordon  and  Hannah  (Minot)  Weld  of  Boston,  and 
was  born  in  that  city,  January  19,  1812.  He  went  some  time 
to  the  Latin  School,  but  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  school 
of  his  brother,  Stephen  M.  Weld,  at  Jamaica  Plain,  where  he 
afterwards  taught  during  his  college  vacations.  He  entered 
Harvard  at  the  beginning  of  the  sophomore  year,  and  gradu- 
ated in  due  course. 

He  studied  medicine  with  Dr.  George  C.  Shattuck,  and 
became  a  convert  to  homoeopathy  about  the  year  1838. 
He  began  practice  in  Boston,  but  soon  removed  to  Jamaica 
Plain.  In  1839  he  married  Miss  Marianne  P.  Jarvis,  of 
Boston,  sister  of  our  classmate  William  P.  Jarvis. 

His  business  soon  became  large,  and  for  nearly  a  quarter 
of  a  century  he  stood  in  his  lot,  spending  and  being  spent 
for  others.  There  are  different  opinions  as  to  the  value  of 
his  mode  of  practice,  but  there  was  no  question  in  the  minds 
of  those  who  knew  him  then  as  to  the  untiring  devotion  and 
faithfulness  with  which  he  performed  all  the  duties  incident 
to  a  large  practice.  This  was  more  onerous  in  his  case 
because  of  there  being  no  other  homoeopathic  physician 
within  a  considerable  distance.  At  length,  the  professional 
labors  so  heartily  performed  proved  beyond  his  strength. 
His  health  gave  way,  and  he  was  forced  to  relinquish  prac- 
tice. This  occurred  in  1862.  He  immediately  went  abroad, 
accompanied  by  his  wife.  He  remained  in  Europe  nearly 


CHRISTOPHER   MINOT    WELD.  83 

four  years,  passing  much  time  in  England,  France,  and  Italy, 
and  three  months  in  Spain.  He  returned  with  improved 
health,  but  was  unable  to  resume  practice.  In  1872  he  made 
a  second  visit  to  Europe,  and  remained  two  years.  His  health 
after  his  return  was  not  good,  and,  though  he  continued  to 
attend  Commencement,  he  looked  more  and  more  like  a 
confirmed  invalid.  His  last  sickness  was  pneumonia,  and 
he  died  at  Jamaica  Plain,  after  an  illness  of  a  week,  March 
14,  1878 

For  his  classmates  he  ever  preserved  a  lively  and  affec- 
tionate remembrance,  and  there  was  none  whose  smiling  face 
was  more  welcomed  in  all  class  gatherings.  He  was  noted, 
in  fact,  for  his  fervent  attachment  to  everything  that  con- 
cerned his  Alma  Mater,  —  in  season  and  out  of  season  her 
welfare  was  to  him  an  agreeable  theme,  and  he  was  always 
ready  to  promote  it  in  any  manner  in  his  power. 

Immediately  after  the  death  of  Dr.  Weld,  the  following 
announcement  appeared  in  the  Boston  papers. 

"  BOSTON  HOMOEOPATHIC  MEDICAL  SOCIETY.  —  The  Late 
Dr.  Weld.  At  the  regular  meeting  of  this  Society,  held  at  the 
Medical  College,  East  Concord  Street,  on  Thursday  evening, 
the  following  resolutions  were  unanimously  adopted  :  — 

"  Whereas,  Death  has  removed  our  respected  associate 
and  beloved  friend,  Christopher  Minot  Weld,  M.  D.,  a  man 
whose  knowledge,  skill,  and  conscientious  devotion  to  his 
profession,  whose  upright  character,  gentle  spirit,  and  warm 
sympathies,  placed  him  in  the  rank  of  the  true  physician, 
and  gave  him  a  position  of  great  influence  and  respect  in 
this  community ;  and 

"Whereas,  With  a  mind  receptive  to  all  truth,  he,  early 
in  his  professional  life,  now  nearly  forty  years  ago,  examined 
homoeopathy,  believed  in  it,  and  though  it  ostracized  him 
from  many  of  his  professional  brethren,  and  subjected  him 


84  THE   CLASS   OF    1833. 

to  obloquy  and  harsh  criticism,  yet  with  a  high  sense  of 
duty  adopted  it ;   and 

"  Whereas,  For  a  quarter-century,  until  failing  health  com- 
pelled him  to  relinquish  active  practice,  in  a  very  extensive 
circle  of  patients,  he  exhibited  its  curative  power  and  benef- 
icent results,  and  up  to  his  latest  moments  maintained  an 
unswerving  belief  in  its  truth,  and  sought  to  add  to  its  prac- 
tical importance,  therefore,  — 

"  Resolved,  That  we  cordially  testify  our  respect  for  one 
so  noble  and  so  good,  who  sacrificed  so  much  for  the  welfare 
of  others,  and  who  accomplished  so  much  for  his  profession 
and  for  humanity. 

"  Resolved,  That  we  invite  the  physicians  of  Massachusetts 
to  unite  with  us  in  the  last  sad  obsequies  to  our  departed 
brother." 


ANDREW   FOSTER. 

A  NDREW  FOSTER,  eldest  son  of  Andrew  and  Mary 
•^A-  (Conant)  Foster,  was  born  January  5,  1815.  His  father 
(H.  C.  1800)  was  established  as  a  physician  successively  in 
Dedham,  Roxbury,  and  Cambridge,  Mass.  His  parents  were 
married  in  Cambridge,  November  19,  1813,  and  his  father 
died  in  that  town  in  1831. 

Foster  took  no  rank  in  his  class,  but  went  through  the 
prescribed  course,  and  graduated  in  1833. 

Very  little  is  known  of  his  life  for  the  first  twenty-five  years 
after  leaving  college.  There  seems  to  have  been  a  peculiar 
mortality  among  his  early  friends  and  companions ;  even  his 
three  brothers,  all  younger  than  himself,  having  died  before 
him.  It  is  thought  that  he  pursued  the  study  of  the  law 
for  a  while.  He  is  believed,  again,  to  have  been  attached  to 
the  editorial  staff  of  some  Boston  newspaper.  About  ten 


ANDREW    FOSTER.  85 

years  after  graduating,  at  the  death  of  the  widow  of  his  only 
maternal  grand-uncle,  Mr.  Andrew  Craigie,  who  owned  and 
occupied  the  fine  old  mansion  in  Cambridge  so  well  known 
subsequently  as  the  home  of  Longfellow,  he  inherited  with 
his  three  brothers  that  house,  and  the  extensive  fields  adjoin- 
ing, now  covered  with  scores  of  pleasant  homes. 

September  16,  1849,  whilst  living  at  Lawrence,  Mass.,  he 
married  Delia,  widow  of  his  brother,  James  Foster,  U.  S.  N. 

At  our  twenty-fifth  anniversary,  in  1858,  he  was  set  down 
on  the  "  Roll  Call  "  as  of  New  York,  and  a  merchant.  This 
is  doubtless  correct.  He  was  probably  then  in  the  iron  trade 
there,  with  his  brother  George,  who  owned  an  iron  foundry. 

Before  leaving  Massachusetts,  he  was  for  a  time  a  stock- 
broker in  Boston.  On  moving  to  New  York,  he  resumed 
that  vocation,  either  before  his  experience  as  an  iron  mer- 
chant or  afterwards. 

About  1860  he  became  a  sufferer  from  asthma,  and  to 
relieve  his  pains  had  recourse  to  stimulants.  This  grew  into 
a  habit,  and  greatly  aggravated  his  complaints.  His  decline 
nevertheless  was  gradual;  so  lately  as  1876  he  retained 
enough  of  his  old  self  to  obtain  admission  into  the  society 
of  "  The  Cincinnati,"  as  successor  of  his  grand-uncle,  Andrew 
Craigie.  But  after  this  time  his  habits  grew  upon  him  until 
he  was  overpowered  by  them. 

He  became  a  Roman  Catholic  before  his  death ;  and,  sep- 
arated from  family  and  friends,  he  expired,  September  22, 
1879,  at  the  Kings  County  Hospital,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and 
was  buried  in  the  Flatbush  Cemetery. 

His  widow  survived  him ;  also  two  children,  —  Andrew 
Foster,  now  employed  in  a  business  position  in  California, 
and  Kate  McRay  Foster,  who  at  present  lives  with  her 
mother  in  New  York. 


86  THE   CLASS   OF    1833. 


WILLIAM   PORTER  JARVIS. 

TT7ILLIAM  PORTER  JARVIS,  son  of  Benjamin  and 
*  *  Mary  (Porter)  Jarvis,  was  born  in  Boston,  March  5, 
1 8 12.  His  father  was  a  merchant  and  selectman  of  the  town 
of  Boston.  He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  school  of  Stephen 
M.  Weld,  of  Jamaica  Plain.  Though  he  graduated  with  the 
class,  his  name  does  not  appear  in  the  annual  catalogue  until 
the  sophomore  year.  On  graduating  he  studied  law,  but 
being  fond  of  literary  pursuits,  and  interested  in  the  subject 
of  education,  he  was  for  several  years  engaged  in  the  occupa- 
tion of  teaching.  Possessed  by  inheritance  of  a  competency, 
and  being  unmarried,  he  gratified  his  taste  by  collecting  a 
fine  library,  which  he  much  enjoyed,  and  also  by  twice  visit- 
ing Europe,  —  the  last  time  joining  his  brother-in-law  and 
sister,  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Weld,  on  their  first  visit  abroad,  and 
accompanying  them  to  Spain. 

Commencement  was  always  a  field  day  to  him,  and  it  is 
doubtful  whether  any  of  the  class  attended  its  services  so 
punctually,  or  enjoyed  them  so  serenely. 

He  died  at  Boston,  after  a  protracted  breaking  up,  of  soft- 
ening of  the  brain,  May  29,  1880. 


FREDERIC   AUGUSTUS  WHITNEY. 


AUGUSTUS  WHITNEY,  son  of  the  Rev. 
Peter  and  Jane  (Lincoln)  Whitney,  was  born  in  Quincy, 
Mass.,  September  13,  1812.  His  father,  grandfather,  and 
great-grandfather  were  ministers,  settled  nearly  fifty  years, 
and  until  death,  over  the  First  Congregational  Church  at 
Quincy,  Northborough,  and  Petersham,  Mass.,  respectively. 


FREDERIC  AUGUSTUS   WHITNEY.  87 

He  was  fitted  for  college  by  his  father,  and  graduated 
with  honor,  in  1833.  While  a  student  in  Harvard  College,  he 
was  also  mathematical  tutor  in  the  noted  classical  school  of 
Mr.  William  Wells  at  Cambridge.  On  graduating,  he  was 
employed  by  Mr.  Stephen  M.  Weld  in  his  equally  noted 
school  at  Jamaica  Plain. 

Having  chosen  the  family  profession,  he  went  through  the 
Divinity  School  at  Cambridge,  and  graduated  there  in  1838. 
He  was  first  employed  by  the  American  Unitarian  Associa- 
tion, in  missionary  work  in  Massachusetts  and  at  the  South 
and  West.  In  April,  1843,  he  was  invited  to  take  charge  of 
the  First  Congregational  Church  at  Brighton,  Mass.  He 
accepted  the  invitation,  and  remained  pastor  of  the  church 
for  sixteen  years. 

January  11,  1853,  he  married  Elizabeth  Perkins,  daughter 
of  the  late  William  Perkins  and  Joanna  (Stetson)  Matchett, 
of  Boston.  They  had  no  children. 

Resigning  his  parochial  office  in  1859,  he  continued  for 
more  than  twenty  years  to  live  in  Brighton,  —  the  circum- 
stances of  his  wife  allowing  him  to  dispense  with  a  salary.  He 
had  made  himself  during  his  active  ministry  much  respected 
and  beloved  in  the  parish,  and  until  the  end  of  life  he  was 
frequently  called  on  for  parochial  services.  Nor  were  his 
public  labors  confined  to  his  old  parish, — the  whole  town 
came  to  appreciate  his  faithfulness  and  persevering  industry. 
He  published,  in  this  connection,  thirteen  annual  reports  as 
chairman  of  the  School  Committee,  nine  annual  reports  as 
President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Public  Library,  and 
the  large  catalogue  of  the  books  therein,  —  the  labor  on  this 
last  being  undertaken  with  insufficient  help,  and  being  prose- 
cuted early  and  late. 

Besides  the  several  town  reports,  and  sermons  on  various 
occasions,  Mr.  Whitney  published  the  following :  — 

An  Historical  Sketch  of  the  Old  Church  at  Quincy,  Mass. 
Biographical  Sketches  of  Josiah  Quincy,  Jr.  and  John  Hancock. 


88  THE   CLASS   OF   1833. 

Biography  of  James  Holton,  Founder  of  the  Holton  Library  (from 
which  grew  the  Brighton  Public  Library). 

Oration  at  the  Dedication  of  the  Soldiers'  Monument,  with  an  His- 
torical Appendix. 

Address  at  the  Consecration  of  Evergreen  Cemetery,  with  an  His- 
torical Appendix. 

Just  before  he  was  seized  with  his  last  sickness,  he  had  com- 
pleted the  History  of  Brighton,  comprising  one  chapter  in 
Samuel  Adams  Drake's  History  of  Middlesex  County,  Mass. 

In  enumerating  his  writings,  the  diary  he  kept  should  not 
be  forgotten.  This  was  begun,  January  I,  1827,  two  years 
and  a  half  before  he  went  to  college,  and  continued  to  Jan- 
uary 1 8,  1880,  when  illness  compelled  him  to  give  it  up,  —  a 
period  of  fifty-three  years.  This  has  been  more  than  once 
referred  to  as  an  arbiter  of  doubtful  points.  It  will  remain 
of  value,  and  ought  to  be  carefully  preserved. 

In  a  volume  entitled  "  Singers  and  Songs  of  the  Liberal 
Faith,"  prepared  by  the  Rev.  Alfred  P.  Putnam,  of  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y.,  in  which  several  occasional  hymns  by  Mr.  Whit- 
ney were  inserted,  is  found  a  brief  biography.  In  this,  Mr. 
Putnam  speaks  of  all  these  biographies,  genealogies,  sketches, 
catalogues,  and  reports,  as  giving  evidence  of  conscientious 
and  painstaking  care  in  their  preparation,  as  showing  a 
habit  of  patient  research,  and  altogether  forming  a  valu- 
able contribution  to  the  department  of  literature  to  which 
they  belong. 

He  died  of  disease  of  the  brain,  at  his  house  in  Gardner 
Street,  Brighton,  October  21,  1880,  having  been  ill  about 
nine  months.  He  was  buried  on  Monday,  October  25,  from 
his  own  church,  Rev.  Dr.  A.  P.  Peabody,  Plummer  Professor 
at  Harvard,  delivering  a  commemorative  address.  Though 
Monday  is  at  Brighton  the  busiest  day  of  the  week,  yet  the 
church  was  filled.  The  following  classmates  acted  as  pall- 
bearers:  Francis  Bowen,  Joseph  Lovering,  H.  W.  Torrey, 
George  E.  Ellis,  and  Morrill  Wyman. 


RUFUS   C.   TORREY.  89 


RUFUS    CAMPBELL  TORREY. 

RUFUS  C.  TORREY,  very  thoughtfully,  as  if  with  a  pre- 
monition that  he  should  not  live  to  the  Commencement 
of  1883,  sent  to  Professor  Bowen,  in  1882,  the  following  brief 
autobiography. 

"  Rufus  Campbell  Torrey,  son  of  John  and  Sally  (Richard- 
son) Torrey,  was  born  at  Oxford,  Mass.,  February  13,  1813. 
His  parents  having  died  while  he  was  quite  young,  he  was 
removed  to  Franklin  under  the  charge  of  a  maternal  uncle. 
He  pursued  his  preparatory  studies  at  the  Academy  in  Wren- 
tham,  and  entered  Harvard  College  as  a  freshman  in  August, 
1829.  He  graduated  in  due  course,  in  August,  1833.  His 
rank  as  a  scholar  placed  him  near  the  middle  of  a  class  of 
fifty-five.  After  leaving  college  he  spent  three  or  four  years 
in  Fitchburg,  engaged  mostly  in  teaching  and  editing  a  news- 
paper. He  also  wrote  a  history  of  the  town  of  Fitchburg,  — 
a  volume  of  about  130  pages,  —  which  was  reprinted  in  1865. 

Near  the  close  of  the  year  1838  he  removed  to  Mobile,  and 
for  two  years  was  engaged  in  teaching,  and  studying  law 
under  the  supervision  of  Judge  B.  T.  Harris,  and  was  admit- 
ted to  the  bar  at  the  close  of  the  year  1840.  In  1841  he 
commenced  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Grove  Hill,  Ala., 
and  removed  thence  to  Claiborne  in  1843,  where  he  has  con- 
tinued to  reside  to  the  present  time. 

In  1844  he  was  elected  Judge  of  the  County  Court  of 
Monroe  County,  which  office  comprised  those  of  Judge  of 
Probate  and  presiding  Judge  of  the  Court  of  County  Com- 
missioners. This  office  he  resigned  after  a  tenure  of  four 
years.  For  twenty-five  years  he  was  an  active  member  of  the 
Masonic  Fraternity,  and  was  elected  Grand  Master  of  the 
R.  and  S.  Masters  of  the  State.  He  led  a  quiet  and  unevent- 

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90  THE   CLASS   OF   1833. 

ful  life  till  1875,  when  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  con- 
vention called  to  revise  the  Constitution  of  the  State.  In 
1876  he  was  chosen  a  State  Senator  for  the  term  of  four 
years.  He  was  married,  in  1846,  to  Elizabeth,  only  daughter 
of  the  late  Andrew  Henshaw.  Four  children  were  the  issue 
of  this  marriage,  three  of  whom,  two  sons  and  a  daughter, 
have  reached  their  majority,  and  are  residing  in  Mobile. 

Deafness  and  other  infirmities  increasing  with  advancing 
age  induced  Mr.  Torrey  to  retire  from  the  practice  of  the 
law  in  1879.  He  was  in  comfortable  circumstances  at  the 
beginning  of  the  late  civil  war,  but  the  results  of  that  un- 
happy misunderstanding  reduced  him,  as  they  have  thou- 
sands of  others,  to  comparative  poverty." 

Rufus  C.  Torrey  died  at  Claiborne,  Ala.,  September  13, 
1882,  of  the  pulmonary  disease  from  which  he  had  so  long 
suffered.  He  was  in  the  active  practice  of  his  profession  to 
within  a  few  years  of  his  death,  thus  showing  the  wisdom  of 
his  emigration,  forty-four  years  ago,  to  the  mild  climate  of 
Alabama. 

The  Mobile  Daily  Register,  a  few  days  after  his  death, 
speaks  of  him  as  one  of  the  most  estimable  men  in  South 
Alabama,  and  as  one  who  left  his  impress  on  the  people  and 
institutions  of  the  State.  The  concluding  paragraph  of  its 
notice  is  here  given,  to  which  those  who  can  recall  the  amia- 
ble traits  of  our  classmate  will  readily  respond. 

"  He  was  of  a  firm  yet  gentle  disposition,  supremely  up- 
right in  all  his  transactions,  and  eminently  just  to  all  men, — a 
man  noted  for  his  constant  observance  of  the  Golden  Rule, — 
a  man  who  died  leaving  not  one  enemy.  In  the  counties  of 
Clarke  and  Monroe,  where  his  example  shone  the  brightest, 
among  his  near  neighbors  and  life-long  friends,  where  he 
married  and  toiled,  and  whence  he  but  Wednesday  passed 
away,  his  loss  will  be  deeply  felt." 


JOHN    CHESTER   LYMAN.  91 


JOHN   CHESTER   LYMAN. 

'  I  "HE  Secretary  has  received  the  following  from  a  near 
-*-  friend  of  Mr.  Lyman. 

"He  was  born  in  Northampton,  Mass.,  August  8,  1813. 
He  was  the  son  of  Jonathan  H.  Lyman,  a  prominent  lawyer 
in  his  day.  He  prepared  for  college  at  Canandaigua  Academy 
and  at  Round  Hill  School,  Northampton,  and  went  through 
the  collegiate  course  at  Harvard.  Afterwards  he  spent  three 
years  abroad.  Returning,  he  entered  the  Harvard  Law 
School,  and,  on  graduating,  opened  an  office  in  Boston,  but 
remained  in  the  profession  only  a  short  time,  being  sent  by 
his  grandfather,  Judge  Hinckley,  to  South  America  on  busi- 
ness. He  never  resumed  his  practice,  but,  having  means 
independent  of  his  profession,  spent  much  of  his  time  in 
reading,  in  society,  and  in  travel. 

"He  married,  in  1854,  Mary,  daughter  of  Hon.  Mathias 
Morris,  of  Doylestown,  Pa.  Since  his  marriage,  he  has  re- 
sided chiefly  in  that  place.  His  health  has  always  been  more 
or  less  delicate,  which  has  been  in  great  measure  the  reason 
of  his  not  leading  a  more  active  life.  He  has  two  sons  and 
two  daughters." 

The  above  was  written  in  September,  1882.  From  ac- 
counts of  Lyman's  health  received  at  the  same  time,  the 
announcement  of  his  death,  six  months  after,  occasioned  lit- 
tle surprise.  It  occurred  on  February  27,  1883.  From  a 
letter  received  from  Mrs.  Lyman,  dated  March  9,  1883,  the 
following  extract  is  made :  — 

"Mr.  Lyman's  death  was  caused  by  exhaustion,  rather  than 
disease.  It  was  a  general  breaking  up  of  the  system.  His 
health  had  been  decidedly  declining  for  a  year  or  two,  and 
he  finally  passed  away  peacefully  and  painlessly." 


92  THE  CLASS   OF   1833. 

Of  the  four  children,  the  eldest  son,  Richard  Morris,  will  be 
twenty-four  next  October.  He  is  a  lawyer,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  last  November.  The  youngest  son,  Robert 
Huntington,  is  sixteen.  The  ages  of  the  two  daughters  are 
between  the  above. 

The  Bucks  County  Intelligencer  of  March  3,  1883,  contains 
the  following  obituary. 

"DEATH  OF  JOHN  C.  LYMAN. 

"John  Chester  Lyman,  one  of  our  oldest  citizens,  died  at 
his  home,  corner  of  Broad  and  Main  Streets,  Doylestown,  last 
Tuesday  evening,  about  half-past  nine  o'clock,  in  the  sixty- 
ninth  year  of  his  age." 

After  reciting  the  early  events  of  his  life  as  given  above, 
the  notice  goes  on :  — 

"  He  had  some  experience  at  the  Boston  Bar  in  certain 
patent  cases ;  but  his  literary  tastes  and  love  for  travel  soon 
induced  him  to  go  abroad,  and  he  made  several  trips  to 
Europe,  one  to  South  America,  and  also  travelled  a  good  deal 
in  this  country. 

"  It  was  during  one  of  his  trips  across  the  Atlantic  that  he 
became  acquainted  with  Miss  Mary  Ann  Morris,  daughter  of 
the  Hon.  Mathias  Morris,  who  represented  this  Congressional 
District  in  the  Twenty-fourth  Congress,  and  a  niece  of  the 
Hon.  Henry  Chapman.  He  subsequently  married  Miss  Mor- 
ris, and,  after  living  a  short  time  in  Philadelphia,  came  to 
Doylestown  about  the  year  1858,  where  he  has  lived  ever 
since. 

"  Mr.  Lyman  has  resided  here  as  a  private  citizen,  never 
holding  public  office,  and  never  engaging  in  active  business. 
He  was  a  vestryman  of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church  for  a 
number  of  years  before  his  death.  He  had  a  large  circle  of 
friends,  and  those  who  were  on  intimate  terms  with  him  ad- 


'JOHN    CHESTER   LYMAN.  93 

mired  his  brilliant  talents  and  his  well-stored  mind.  He  was 
a  constant  reader  almost  to  the  day  of  his  death.  He  had 
the  reputation  of  doing  many  kind  acts,  in  a  quiet  way, 
among  his  neighbors,  especially  among  those  who  were 
poor." 


NOTICES  OF  THE  SURVIVORS. 


NOTICES  OF  THE  SURVIVORS. 


SAMUEL   PAGE  ANDREWS. 

SALEM,  May  3,  1882. 

MY  DEAR  MR.  HIGGINSON,  —  I  don't  suppose  it  would 
be  safe  to  address  a  President  in  any  less  formal  way 
than  that,  or  I  should  have  said,  My  dear  Waldo.  Here  's 
the  life  of  Samuel  Page  Andrews.  Born  at  Salem  in  the  cold 
winter,  (and  he  has  never  got  over  the  chill  of  that  inclement 
season,)  December  8,  1813.  Carried  in  his  tender  infancy  up 
to  Danvers  to  preserve  his  precious  life  from  the  ferocious 
British,  who  were  continually  threatening  his  native  place; 
returned  with  the  return  of  peace  to  his  home,  placed  in  one 
of  the  old  and  many-gabled  houses  of  the  town  at  the  age  of 
four,  under  the  care  of  Marm  Oliver,  —  an  ancient  dame  of 
the  very  old  school,  fat  and  easy,  whose  chief  employment 
and  duty  were  to  take  snuff  and  sleep,  while  the  youngsters 
under  her  care  were  engaged  in  the  serious  work  of  educa- 
tion ;  to  wit,  skylarking,  and  catching  handfuls  of  flies  and 
letting  them  off  under  her  nose,  to  the  great  disturbance  of 
her  needed  and  well-merited  repose.  I  think  this  good  old 
lady  —  good  in  descent,  good  to  her  scholars,  and  very  good 
to  herself — was  nearly  eighty  years  of  age  when  she  took 
charge  of  his  education.  From  her,  after  a  year's  discipline, 
he  was  transferred  to  Marm  Bowditch,  a  young  and  flighty 
dame  of  not  more  than  seventy  years,  of  whom  his  recollec- 

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tions  are  not  so  vivid  as  of  his  first  teacher;  from  her,  at 
the  age  of  six  or  seven,  transferred  to  Marm  Leach,  a  still 
younger  dame  of  thirty-five  or  forty,  of  severe  countenance, 
who  ruled  from  her  throne  her  boys  with  a  rod  of  birch, 
and  at  whose  head  he  found  it  necessary  (on  the  day  of  his 
instalment)  to  throw  his  primer  for  some  fancied  injustice; 
placed  at  the  ripe  age  of  eight  under  care  of  John  Walsh 
(son  of  Walsh's  Arithmetic),  where,  in  company  with  Ben 
Peirce,  Ingersoll  Bowditch,  and  he  thinks  Nat  also,  and  a  lot 
of  other  youngsters  and  oldsters,  most  of  whom  have  gone 
up,  he  was  inducted  into  the  mysteries  of  Latin  grammar 
and  of  that  same  arithmetic  of  blessed  memory. 

After  some  three  years'  fighting  with  the  boys  of  the  Public 
Latin  School,  he  was  removed  to  that  school,  where,  under 
the  sharp  discipline  of  Theo  Eames  and  the  somewhat  milder 
rule  of  Henry  K.  Oliver  (who  still  survives,  and  whose  joke 
it  is  to  say  that  he  went  to  school  with  me,  making  himself, 
with  his  more  than  eighty  years  of  age,  a  contemporary),  he 
was  fitted  for  college,  —  if  being  crammed  with  the  Latin  and 
Greek  Grammars,  and  all  their  rules  and  exceptions,  can  be 
called  fitting.  In  college  he  did  n't  do  much,  except  have 
a  reasonably  good  time,  and  he  is  satisfied  that,  if  the  thing 
were  to  be  gone  over  with  again,  he  could  neither  get  into 
college  nor  out  of  it.  Instead  of  devoting  himself  to  the 
curriculum  of  the  Old  Dame,  whom  in  after  years  we  call  the 
"Dear  Mother,"  he  spent  no  inconsiderable  part  of  his  time 
in  roving  about  the  country  with  dear  old  Jeffries  Wyman 
(of  more  than  blessed  memory),  dissecting  snakes  and  frogs 
and  cats  and  dogs,  and  picking  up  heaps  of  stones  which  were 
dignified  with  the  name  of  minerals.  These  dissections  and 
the  stones  having  taught  him  the  vanity  of  earthly  things, 
he  entered  the  Divinity  School  to  see  if  anything  substantial 
could  be  found  there,  though  with  no  very  strong  intention 
of  pursuing  the  profession  for  which  the  studies  at  that  place 
were  supposed  to  be  a  preparation.  After  preaching  about 


SAMUEL   P.  ANDREWS.  99 

and  about  for  a  year,  his  health  broke  down  and  he  dawdled, 
loafed,  for  two  years,  when  he  went  into  business  in  Boston, 
hoping  to  make  money  enough  to  buy  a  farm,  the  living  upon 
which  had  been,  in  the  phrase  of  these  days,  "  the  dream  of 
his  life."  He  did  n't  make  the  money,  but  bought  the  farm 
all  the  same,  —  a  small  farm  in  Framingham,  —  having  in  the 
mean  time  married  Rebecca  Bacon  Scudder,  born  in  Boston, 
July  4,  1818,  but  at  the  time  of  her  marriage  living  in  Barn- 
stable.  This  was  on  October  15,  1845.  Here,  i.e.  in  Fram- 
ingham, he  remained  for  a  while,  and  after  seven  years  of  hard 
but  extremely  pleasant  and  congenial  work  he  returned  to 

• 

his  old  home  in  Salem,  —  the  health  of  his  wife  requiring  a 
change,  and  his  two  children,  Abby  Bacon,  born  August  5, 
1846,  and  William  Page,1  born  November  22,  1848,  needing 
some  better  or  more  convenient  educational  advantages  than 
could  be  readily  obtained  in  Framingham.  Here  he  stayed 
for  a  year  doing  nothing ;  but  finding  this  to  be  hard  work, 
he  accepted  the  position  of  Clerk  of  the  Police  Court  in 
Salem,  and  afterwards  of  the  First  District  Court  of  Essex, 
to  which  he  was  appointed  by  the  Governor  in  June,  1874. 
And  here  he  has  been  all  these  years,  and  has  seen  enough 
of  misery  and  misfortune  in  others,  and  of  wrong-doing  and 
suffering,  to  satisfy  any  reasonable  person,  and  to  furnish  the 
groundwork  of  ten  thousand  dime  novels. 

You  wanted  his  life,  (I  don't  mean  criminally,)  and  you 
have  it.  If  you  had  thought  he  was  going  to  last  so  long,  you 
probably  would  n't  have  asked  for  it.  Make  the  best  or  the 
worst  of  it  that  you  can.  "  Drop  a  tear"  over  its  misfortune, 
and  rejoice  over  what  of  success  it  may  have  had.  If  it 
should  last  till  the  fiftieth  anniversary,  the  holder  of  it  will 
hope  to  meet  the  surviving  remnants,  —  the  "rari  nantes." 
Must  have  some  Latin  for  the  credit  of  the  class  (even  if  it 
is  n't  good  grammar)  of  1833. 

Yours  most  truly, 

SAMUEL  P.  ANDREWS. 

1  See  note,  page  143. 


100  THE  CLASS   OF   1833. 


JAMES   LORING  BAKER. 

JAMES  L.  BAKER,  after  graduating,  studied  law.  Being 
admitted  to  the  Suffolk  Bar,  he  opened  an  office  in 
Boston.  He  soon  abandoned  the  law  to  go  into  the  manu- 
facturing business  of  his  father  at  Hingham,  Mass.,  in  which 
he  continued  some  years.  After  giving  it  up,  he  continued 
to  reside  in  Hingham. 

He  was  a  frequent  contributor  to  newspapers,  and  his 
papers,  printed  in  the  Boston  Transcript,  were  collected  and 
published  in  a  handsome  volume  under  the  title  of  "  Men 
and  Things." 

In  1875  he  removed  to  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  where  he  now 
resides. 

He  has  been  twice  married:  —  ist.  May  9,  1850,  to  Nancy 
R.,  daughter  of  Hon.  Zabdiel  Sampson,  of  Plymouth,  Mass. 
She  died,  May  9,  1854.  2d.  May  5,  1860,  to  Susan  F.  Lunen- 
burg,  of  Boston,  He  has  had  one  son,  and  three  daughters 
by  his  second  wife,  and  two  of  his  daughters  are  now  living. 


FRANCIS   BOWEN. 

THE    following   notice    is    mainly   from    "  The    Harvard 
Book,"  published   in  1874,  with  some  additions  and 
amendments  furnished  by  Professor  Bowen. 

Francis  Bowen,  born  in  Charlestown,  Mass.,  September  8, 
1811,  received  his  early  education  at  the  Mayhew  Grammar 
School,  in  Boston.  For  a  few  years  he  was  junior  clerk  in 
a  publishing  office  in  Boston;  in  January,  1829,  he  became 
a  pupil  in  Phillips  Exeter  Academy,  and  in  August,  1830, 


FRANCIS   BOWEN.  IOI 

he  entered  the  sophomore  class  in  Harvard  College.  In  the 
winter  of  1829-30,  he  taught  school  at  Hampton  Falls,  N.  H. ; 
and  in  the  three  following  winters,  successively,  at  Lexington, 
Northborough,  and  Concord,  Mass.  Graduating  at  Harvard 
with  the  first  honors  of  his  class  in  1833,  he  became  instructor 
in  mathematics  in  Phillips  Exeter  Academy,  and  continued  to 
act  in  that  capacity  till  August,  1835.  He  then  returned  to 
Harvard,  where  he  was  first  made  Tutor  in  Greek,  and,  a 
year  afterwards,  was  appointed  instructor  of  the  senior  class 
in  mental  philosophy  and  political  economy.  This  office  he 
held  for  three  years,  being  much  occupied  also  with  literary 
pursuits.  Tn  1837  he  contributed  to  Sparks's  "Library  of 
American  Biography  "  a  Life  of  Sir  William  Phipps ;  and  he 
afterwards  furnished  for  the  same  work  Lives  of  James  Otis, 
Baron  Steuben,  and  Benjamin  Lincoln.  He  was  also  a  fre- 
quent contributor  to  the  literary  periodicals  of  that  day.  In 
August,  1839,  ne  resigned  his  office  in  the  College,  and  went 
to  Europe,  where  he  spent  a  year  in  study  and  travel. 

On  his  return,  he  established  his  residence  in  Cambridge, 
and  devoted  himself  for  the  next  twelve  years  to  literature 
as  a  profession.  In  1842  appeared  his  edition  of  Virgil, 
with  English  notes  and  a  considerable  amount  of  illustra- 
tive and  critical  matter.  At  that  period  comparatively  few 
American  editions  of  the  classics  had  appeared;  and  this 
work,  though  never  revised  or  purged  of  numerous  errors 
and  defects,  has  been  kept  in  the  market  by  successive 
issues  from  the  same  stereotype  plates,  and  is  still  in  con- 
siderable use.  In  the  same  year  he  published  a  volume  of 
"  Critical  Essays  on  Speculative  Philosophy,"  devoted  chiefly 
to  the  systems  of  Kant,  Fichte,  and  Cousin,  and  to  the  evi- 
dences of  Christianity  as  affected  by  the  developments  of 
metaphysical  doctrines. 

In  1843  Mr.  Bowen  became  the  owner  and  editor  of  "The 
North  American  Review,"  and  continued  to  conduct  this 
work  for  the  next  eleven  years.  He  also  edited  and  pub- 


102  THE   CLASS   OF   1833. 

lished,  for  six  years,  "The  American  Almanac  and  Reposi- 
tory of  Useful  Knowledge."  In  1849  he  published,  in  an 
octavo  volume,  two  courses  of  "  Lowell  Lectures  on  the 
Application  of  Metaphysical  and  Ethical  Science  to  the 
Evidences  of  Religion."  Six  years  afterwards,  this  work, 
revised  and  enlarged,  appeared  in  a  second  edition,  and 
continued  in  use  for  a  considerable  time  as  a  text-book  at 
Harvard. 

In  1850  Mr.  Bowen  was  appointed  by  the  Corporation  to 
the  McLean  Professorship  of  History  in  the  College,  but  held 
this  office  only  six  months.  In  1853  he  was  nominated  and 
confirmed  as  Alford  Professor  of  Natural  Religion,  Moral 
Philosophy,  and  Civil  Polity,  and  still  continues  to  act  under 
this  appointment.  In  1879  he  received  from  Harvard  Col- 
lege, with  his  classmates  Professors  Levering  and  Torrey, 
the  degree  of  LL.  D. 

Besides  those  already  mentioned,  he  has  published  the 
following  works :  — 

Behr's  Translation  of  Weber's  Outlines  of  Universal  History,  re- 
vised and  corrected,  with  the  Addition  of  a  History  of  the  United 
States.  1853. 

Dugald  Stewart's  Philosophy  of  the  Human  Mind,  revised  and 
abridged,  with  Critical  and  Explanatory  Notes.  1854. 

Documents  of  the  Constitution  of  England  and  America,  from 
'  Magna  Charta  to  the  Federal  Constitution  of  1789,  compiled 
and  edited,  with  Notes.  1854. 

The  Principles  of  Political  Economy  applied  to  the  Condition  and 
Institutions  of  the  American  People.  1856. 

The  Metaphysics  of  Sir  William  Hamilton,  collected,  arranged,  and 
abridged,  for  the  Use  of  Colleges  and  Private  Students.  1862. 

De  Tocqueville's  Democracy  in  America,  edited  with  Notes,  the 
Translation  revised,  and  in  great  part  rewritten,  and  the  Additions 
made  to  the  recent  Paris  Editions  now  first  translated.  1862. 

A  Treatise  on  Logic,  or  the  Laws  of  Pure  Thought,  comprising  both 
the  Aristotelic  and  Hamiltonian  Analyses  of  Logical  Forms,  and 
some  Chapters  of  Applied  Logic.  1864. 


LUTHER   CLARK.  10$ 

American  Political  Economy,  including  Strictures  on  the  Manage- 
ment of  the  Currency  and  the  Conduct  of  the  Finances  since 
1 86 1.  New  York,  1870. 

Modern  Philosophy,  from  Descartes  to  Schopenhauer  and  Hartmann. 
New  York,  1877. 

Gleanings  from  a  Literary  Life,  1838-1880.     New  York,  1880. 

Professor  Bowen  served  on  the  U.  S.  Silver  Commission 
in  1876.  His  colleagues  were  Senators  Boutwell,  Jones  of 
Nevada,  and  Bogy  of  Missouri;  Representatives  Bland,  Gib- 
son, and  Willard ;  Expert,  W.  S.  Groesbeck. 

Professor  Bowen  married,  November  i,  1848,  Arabella 
Stuart,  daughter  of  Charles  Stuart,  Esq.,  of  Lancaster,  N.  H., 
and  niece  of  Rev.  Daniel  Austin.  His  only  son,  Charles 
Stuart  Bowen,  was  born  in  July,  1850,  and  graduated  at  Har- 
vard in  1871.  He  has  two  daughters  surviving,  the  elder, 
Maria,  the  younger,  Helen  Elizabeth.  All  three  children 
live  at  home,  unmarried. 


LUTHER  CLARK. 

DR.  CLARK  has  sent  to  the  secretary  the  following 
particulars. 

"  Studied  medicine,  and  after  taking  his  degree  as  M.  D.  in 
1836,  commenced  practice  in  Boston,  where  he  has  since 
mostly  resided.  He  has  been  a  member  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Medical  Society  since  joining  it  in  1836. 

In  1840  he  adopted  the  principles  and  practice  of  homoe- 
opathy, to  which  he  has  since  adhered,  though  strongly 
opposed  to  the  absurd  infinitesimals  which  have  brought 
such  discredit  upon  the  system  and  such  wrong  to  patients 
in  need  of  medicine. 

In  1843  he  married  Selina  Cranch  Minot,  of  Boston.     Has 


IO4  THE  CLASS   OF   1833. 

had  five  children,  of  whom  a  son,  Theodore  M.  (H.  C.  1866), 
architect,  and  a  daughter  (Mrs.  Geo.  Ropes),  survive. 

For  some  years  past  he  has  been  in  poor  health ;  has  now 
relinquished  practice,  and  resides  a  part  of  the  time  at  the 
South." 


GEORGE  INGLIS   CRAFTS. 

THE   secretary  received   the   following   from  Mr.  Crafts 
under  dates  of  Charleston,  S.  C.,  July  1 1  and  Novem- 
ber 27,  1882. 

I  was  born  in  1812  or  '13;  then  Charleston  College  to 
senior  year.  After  graduating  at  Cambridge  returned  to 
Charleston.  Studied  or  tried  to  study  law;  was  "  admitted 
to  the  bar"  in  '35  or  '36:  never  got  much  practice  or  repu- 
tation, and  less  money.  In  1846  went  off  for  a  European 
tour;  took  two  years  on  it, — Palestine  and  the  Nile  to  the 
Cataracts,  then  Greece  and  Spain,  having  done  Italy  and 
Switzerland  previously.  Returning  to  Charleston  end  of  '47, 
instead  of  trying  law  again,  as  I  ought  to  have  done,  under- 
took the  cultivation  of  a  small  plantation  near  here,  which 
had  been  in  my  family  a  long  time,  and  which  furnished  the 
means  of  living  very  economically  without  too  much  mental 
exertion.  The  summer  of  1853  went  over  to  France  in  charge 
of  a  sick  cousin ;  passed  it  quietly  with  Prince  Lucien  Murat, 
near  Paris,  who  had  married,  when  living  in  New  Jersey,  a 
cousin  of  mine,  and  who,  on  accession  of  the  Bonapartes 
to  power,  removed  with  his  family  to  France.  In  the  next 
two  years  I  lived  here  quietly,  attending  to  my  farm  business. 
March,  1855,  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  Anderson  of  Florida 
and  New  York;  then  made  a  third  trip  across  the  water, 
returning  here  and  living  on  very  quietly  and  comfortably 
until  the  war  broke  out  in  '60.  Having  received  a  commis- 


HIRAM   KEITH   CURTIS.  105 

sion  as  Captain  in  Quartermaster's  Department,  was  stationed 
here  and  served  to  the  end. 

Mrs.  Crafts  died  in  April,  I865,1  leaving  me  with  two 
daughters,  now  twenty-four  and  twenty-one,  unmarried,  and 
one  son,  William,2  now  about  nineteen. 

Since  end  of  war  I  have  been  living  here  continuously, 
we  having  a  small  income  from  property  of  Mrs.  C.  in  New 
York. 

As  regards  my  bodily  health,  I  keep  perfectly  sound, 
nothing  but  a  few  headaches  ever  troubling  me,  but  I  weigh 
only  a  little  more  than  one  hundred  pounds. 

Always  yours  faithfully, 

G.  I.  CRAFTS. 


HIRAM   KEITH   CURTIS. 

HIRAM  KEITH  CURTIS,  after  graduating,  adopted  the 
profession  of  a  civil  engineer.  He  entered  the  office 
of  Colonel  Loammi  Baldwin  at  Charlestown,  Mass.,  then 
esteemed  the  best  school  in  that  art.  He  remained  there 
a  number  of  years,  and  was  much  valued  for  his  skill 
and  thoroughness.  About  ten  years  after  leaving  college, 
whilst  shooting,  he  met  with  an  accident,  by  which  he  lost 
one  eye  and  one  hand,  —  a  very  serious  loss  in  his  chosen 
profession. 

The  above  sketch  was  sent  to  Curtis,  June  2,  1882.  He 
soon  returned  it,  with  the  following  conclusion. 

1  Her  death  made  one  of  the  many  sad  tragedies  of  the  war.  After  the  occu- 
pation of  Columbia,  S.  C.,  by  General  Sherman,  Mrs.  Crafts  —  being  separated 
from  her  husband,  who  was  obliged  to  leave  her  there,  and  misled  by  false  ru- 
mors—  set  out,  with  her  three  young  children,  to  reach  New  York,  where  she 
had  relatives.  She  succeeded  in  doing  so,  after  exposures  and  privations  lasting 
many  weeks;  but  these  hardships  cost  her  life.  She  arrived  in  New  York  only 
to  die. 

3  Now  a  student  in  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology. 

14 


106  THE  CLASS   OF   1833. 

"  After  lying  by  for  repairs  a  year  and  a  half,  he  gradually 
began  work  again,  and  about  five  years  afterwards  retired  to 
East  Stoughton  and  has  lain  dormant  there  ever  since." 

In  a  note  accompanying  the  return  he  says :  "  Though 
quiet  and  useless,  I  would  not  have  you  think  me  disap- 
pointed or  morose.  I  feel  that  I  have  had  more  than  a  fair 
chance  in  the  world." 


JOHN   HOMER  DIX. 

MR.  HIGGINSON  :  — 
DEAR   SIR,  —  September  9,  1840,  I   performed    the 
first  operation  for  strabismus,  or  cross-eye,  on  this  side  of 
the  Atlantic.     On   the  following   day   it   was    performed    at 
Pittsfield,  by  Dr.  Willard  Parker,  of  New  York. 

Soon  after,  I  announced  in  the  Boston  Medical  and  Sur- 
gical Journal  my  withdrawal  from  general  practice,  and  that  I 
should  treat  only  diseases  of  the  eye  and  ear.  This  step  was 
regarded  unfavorably  by  my  best  professional  friends,  and, 
so  far  as  I  know,  was  the  earliest  instance  of  a  man  of  regular 
standing  in  this  country  adopting  an  exclusive  specialty  and 
adhering  to  it.  In  my  old  age,  it  is  a  great  satisfaction  to  me 
that  so  many  men  of  large  intelligence  and  thorough  educa- 
tion have  taken  the  same  course. 

In  1849  I  obtained  a  Boylston  prize  for  an  Essay  on  Mor- 
bid Sensibility  of  the  Retina.  It  was  published,  and  is,  I 
believe,  the  first  work  to  give  what  is  now  generally  accepted 
as  the  rationale  of  the  disease.  It  is  now  admitted  that  the 
term  above  used  was  a  misnomer,  and  the  disease  is  now 
called  Asthenopia. 

In  1857,  against  the  remonstrance  of  friends,  I  began  to 
build  the  Hotel  Pelham,  of  which  Mr.  King,  in  the  Handbook 


CHARLES   DRAPER.  107 

of  Boston,  says  that  "  it  was  the  first  building  of  the  French 
flats  or  family  hotel  class,  and  that  this  mode  of  habitation 
gained  its  foothold  in  America  by  its  introduction  here." 

Five  years  elapsed  before  a  building  for  this  purpose  was 
erected  in  New  York.  They  are  now  counted  by  hundreds 
in  Boston,  and  by  thousands  in  New  York. 

This  is  all  I  recall  creditable  to  myself  and  of  interest  to 
others,  and  if  you  feel  disposed  to  wonder  at  the  length  of 
the  statement,  remember  that  you  brought  it  on  yourself, 
and  that  you  are  spared  the  much  longer  list  of  faults  and 
failures.  These  last  I  am  striving  to  forget,  but  if  you  care 
to  know  them,  ask  my  relatives,  friends,  and  patients. 

Yours  truly, 

J.  H.  Dix. 

June  27,  1882. 

Dr.  Dix  married,  June  9,  1858,  Helen  Pelham,  daughter  of 
the  late  Thomas  Curtis  and  half-sister  to  the  late  Charles  P. 
and  Thomas  B.  Curtis,  all  three  well-known  Bostonians. 


CHARLES    DRAPER. 

PONTIAC,  MICH.,  June  8,  1882. 

MR.  HlGGINSON  :  — 
DEAR  SIR, — The  year  of  my  graduation  I  left  Mas- 
sachusetts, and  came  to  Michigan;  my  place  of  residence 
has  ever  since  been  at  Pontiac.  My  father,  William  Draper, 
was  a  graduate  at  Harvard,  and  he  removed  to  this  place  from 
Marlborough  about  six  months  before  the  time  I  did. 

Early  after  arriving  here  I  taught  an  academy  for  a  short 
time,  —  Pontiac  was  then  a  frontier  town.  I  taught  the  first 
academic  school  in  Northern  Michigan. 


108  THE  CLASS   OF   1833. 

I  studied  law  in  the  office  of  my  father  for  several  years, 
and  was  admitted  to  practise  in  1840. 

The  pleasantest  part  of  my  life  was  the  first  years  of  my 
residence  in  Michigan.  All  things  were  new  and  fresh, — 
the  inhabitants,  their  habits,  customs,  and  manner  of  living. 
Society  was  in  no  wise  hampered  by  conventionalities.  I 
became  a  married  man  in  1840.  I  have  three  sons  and  one 
daughter.  The  three  sons  are  lawyers  by  profession ;  and  in 
the  providence  of  God  I  have  been  greatly  favored,  —  all  my 
children  are  still  living. 

Michigan  was  admitted  into  the  Union  as  a  State  in  1836, 
and  for  twenty  years  was  a  strong  Democratic  State.  Soon 
after  the  adoption  of  the  State  Constitution  I  was  elected 
County  Clerk  of  Oakland  County,  and  held  that  office  for 
several  years :  was  subsequently  elected  for  several  terms  to 
the  office  of  Prosecuting  Attorney  of  the  same  county,  and 
in  1867  was  chosen  State  Senator,  and  finally,  so  far  as  office- 
holding  is  concerned,  was  appointed  United  States  Assessor, 
and  then  Register  in  Bankruptcy.  You  can  gather  from  this 
that  I  have  been  a  Republican,  and  wish  it  understood  I  am 
still  such,  and  in  all  human  probability  shall  die  in  that 
political  faith. 

Affectionately  your  friend  and  classmate, 

CHARLES  DRAPER. 

In  a  letter  received  by  the  secretary  under  date  of  April 
IO,  1883,  Draper  says:  "As  for  myself,  my  strength  both 
physical  and  mental  holds  out  remarkably.  Can  read  and 
write  without  the  use  of  spectacles,  and  with  eye  and  hand 
as  clear  and  steady  as  on  the  day  I  graduated  from  Old 
Harvard,  —  God  bless  her.  My  step  is  as  strong  and  firm 
as  it  then  was." 


GEORGE   EDWARD   ELLIS  109 


GEORGE  EDWARD   ELLIS. 

EORGE   EDWARD   ELLIS,  son  of  David  and  Sarah 
(Rogers)  Ellis,  was  born  in  Boston,  August  8,  1814. 

He  was  fitted  for  college  at  the  Boston  Latin  School,  Round 
Hill  School,  Northampton,  and  the  school  of  Mr.  William 
Wells,  Cambridge.  He  entered  Harvard  College  in  1829, 
and  graduated  in  1833. 

Choosing  the  profession  of  a  clergyman,  he  entered  the 
Theological  School  at  Cambridge,  and  completed  its  course 
of  study  in  1836. 

Soon  after  leaving  Cambridge  he  visited  Europe.  On  his 
return,  he  preached  at  various  churches  in  Boston  and  its 
vicinity,  with  great  acceptance ;  and  the  Harvard  Church  in 
Charlestown,  which  Rev.  Dr.  James  Walker  had  recently  left, 
invited  him  to  become  their  minister.  He  accepted  their 
offer,  and  was  ordained  on  March  II,  1840. 

In  1857,  Mr.  Ellis  was  chosen  Professor  of  Systematic 
Theology  in  the  Divinity  School  at  Cambridge.  Residence 
not  being  required,  he  accepted  this  office,  and  performed 
its  duties  until  1863.  In  1857,  also,  the  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Divinity  was  conferred  upon  him  by  Harvard  College. 

In  1869,  after  an  incumbency  of  nearly  thirty  years,  he 
resigned  his  pastorate  at  Charlestown,  to  take  effect  on  the 
1st  of  July  in  that  year. 

Since  that  date,  he  has  preferred  to  remain  without  paro- 
chial cares,  and  to  devote  himself  chiefly  to  literary  labors. 

On  the  1 5th  of  April,  1840,  about  a  month  after  his  ordi- 
nation, Mr.  Ellis  married  Elizabeth  Bruce,  daughter  of  Mr. 
William  Eager,  of  Boston.  Mrs.  Ellis  died,  April  10,  1842, 
leaving  one  son,  John  Harvard  Ellis,  born  in  Charlestown, 
January  9.  1841.  This  son  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1862, 
took  his  degree  of  LL.  B.  in  1864,  was  admitted  to  the 


110  THE   CLASS   OF   1833. 

Boston  Bar,  and  contributed  some  articles  to  the  American 
Law  Review.  In  1867  he  edited  a  sumptuous  edition  of  the 
works  of  Anne  Bradstreet  in  prose  and  verse.  On  the  25th 
of  March,  1869,  he  married  Grace  Atkinson,  daughter  of 
Mr.  James  L.  Little.  Up  to  this  time,  and  somewhat  later, 
he  appeared  to  have  as  fair  prospects  of  life  and  health  as 
belong  to  most  young  men.  He  became  ill,  however,  when 
in  Europe,  on  his  wedding  tour.  His  malady  was  at  first 
obscure;  but,  on  his  return  to  Boston,  it  soon  developed 
itself  in  the  form  of  disease  of  the  lungs,  and  he  died  in  that 
city,  May  3,  1870,  at  the  age  of  twenty-nine. 

On  the  22d  of  October,  1859,  Dr.  Ellis  married,  as  his 
second  wife,  Lucretia  Goddard,  daughter  of  Mr.  Benjamin 
Apthorp  Gould  (H.  C.  1814),  for  many  years  head-master  of 
the  Boston  Latin  School.  Mrs.  Ellis  died  at  Mount  Desert, 
Maine,  July  6,  1869,  a  few  days  after  her  husband's  connec- 
tion with  his  parish  in  Charlestown  had  been  dissolved. 

The  events  of  Dr.  Ellis's  life  not  stated  above  —  his  ser- 
vices and  honors  not  already  mentioned  —  are  best  narrated 
in  a  passage  from  his  biography,  contained  in  the  "  History 
of  the  Harvard  Church  in  Charlestown," 1  to  which  the 
Secretary  is  already  much  indebted. 

"  During  the  entire  period  of  his  residence  in  Charlestown, 
Dr.  Ellis  took  an  active  interest  in  the  public  schools,  and  in 
all  educational  matters,  serving  several  years  on  the  School 
Committee.  He  was  no  less  active  with  his  pen,  having 
written  much  in  the  interest  of  education.  To  the  New 
York  Review,  the  North  American  Review,  and  the  Atlantic 
Monthly  he  has  been  a  large  contributor,  chiefly  on  topics  of 
American  history,  of  which  he  has  been  a  close  and  life-long 
student;  while  he  has  occasionally  written  for  the  Monthly 
Religious  Magazine.  He  has  also  contributed  several  articles 
to  the  ninth  edition  of  the  Encyclopaedia  Britannica.  He 

1  History  of  the  Harvard  Church  in  Charlestown,  1815-1879.  Boston: 
Printed  for  the  Society.  1879.  pp.  294. 


GEORGE  EDWARD  ELLIS.  Ill 

was  at  one  time  the  editor  of  the  Christian  Register,  with  the 
Rev.  Dr.  George  Putnam,  and  subsequently  alone.  He  also 
conducted  the  Christian  Examiner  for  several  years. 

"In  1864,  he  delivered  before  the  Lowell  Institute  a  course 
of  lectures  on  'The  Evidences  of  Christianity";  in  1871,  a 
course  on  '  The  Provincial  History  of  Massachusetts' ;  and  in 
1879,  a  course  on  'The  Red  Man  and  the  White  Man  in 
North  America.' 

"  Dr.  Ellis  early  received  the  honors  of  the  Massachusetts 
Historical  Society,  of  which  he  is  one  of  the  most  prominent 
members  and  a  Vice-President.  He  has  contributed  largely 
to  their  published  volumes  of  '  Proceedings,'  and  has  edited 
several  volumes  of  the  Society's  '  Collections.'  He  has  also 
received  the  diploma  of  the  American  Academy  of  Arts  and 
Sciences,  of  the  American  Antiquarian  Society,  and  of  the 
Historical  Societies  of  New  York  and  other  States.  From 
1850  to  1854  he  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Overseers  of 
Harvard  College,  and  its  Secretary,  1853-54.  He  withdrew 
his  name  as  a  candidate,  when  presented  by  the  Alumni  for 
re-election  to  the  Board  in  1879.  From  1871  to  1874  he  was 
a  trustee  of  the  Massachusetts  General  Hospital." 

At  the  end  of  this  notice  of  Dr.  Ellis,  Mr.  Henry  H.  Edes 
adds  what  is  believed  to  be  a  perfect  list  of  his  separate  pub- 
lications up  to  the  time  of  printing  the  "  History  of  the  Har- 
vard Church,"  in  1879.  This  list,  together  with  a  catalogue 
of  his  papers  in  several  reviews  and  magazines,  and  of  his 
contributions  to  the  Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  His- 
torical Society  and  of  the  American  Antiquarian  Society,  fill 
ten  pages  in  an  octavo  pamphlet. 

Since  1879  the  following  works  have  been  published  by 
him:  — 

In  Memorial  History  of  Boston,  Vol.  I.,  1880,  chapter  on 
"The  Puritan  Commonwealth,"  pp.  141-191  ;  and  chapter  on 
"  The  Indians  of  Eastern  Massachusetts,"  pp.  241-275.  In 
Vol.  II.,  1881,  chapter  on  "The  Royal  Governors,"  pp.  27-93. 


112  THE  CLASS   OF   1833. 

Memoir  of  Jacob  Bigelow,  M.  D.,  LL.  D.     1880.    pp.  105. 

Introduction  to  the  History  of  the  First  Church  in  Boston. 
1 88 1.  pp.  74. 

The  Red  Man  and  the  White  Man  in  North  America,  from 
its  Discovery  to  the  Present  Time.  1882.  pp.  xvi.,  642. 


Y 

SIDNEY  HOWARD   GAY. 

y 

SIDNEY  HOWARD  GAY,  for  whom  some  of  the  class 
were  happy  in  procuring  from  the  President  and  Fellows 
of  the  University  a  well-merited  degree  in  1877,  sent  the 
Secretary,  in  the  autumn  of  1882,  a  package  of  reminiscences, 
which  were  placed  at  his  disposal.  From  these  he  selects 
the  following. 

Hingham  is  his  native  place.  His  father  was  Ebenezer 
Gay,  and  his  family  have  lived  in  Hingham  since  the  begin- 
ning of  the  last  century.  The  first  of  the  name  in  Hingham 
was  Dr.  Ebenezer  Gay  (H.  C.  1714),  who  was  minister  of 
the  parish  sixty-nine  years  and  nine  months,  —  the  longest 
ministry  on  record. 

His  mother,  Mary  Alllyne  Otis,  was  a  daughter  of  Joseph, 
a  brother  of  James  Otis.  "  My  ancestry,  you  see,"  he  says, 
"  was  the  best  part  of  me." 

He  entered  college  at  fifteen  years,  but  remained  only  to 
the  beginning  of  the  Junior  year,  when  ill  health  compelled 
him  to  leave.  Two  years  of  idleness  apparently  set  him  up 
again,  and  he  was  put  into  the  counting-house  of  Perkins  & 
Co.,  of  Boston.  He  remained  in  the  employ  of  that  house 
about  two  years,  almost  to  the  dissolution  of  the  firm.  Then, 
after  trying  the  West  for  a  couple  of  years,  he  began  the 
study  of  law  in  his  father's  office  at  Hingham. 


SIDNEY  HOWARD   GAY.  113 

But  he  soon  abandoned  the  profession,  as  he  says,  "  from 
certain  scruples  of  conscience  as  to  the  oath  to  support  the 
Constitution  of  the  United  States.  For  my  mind  had  been 
turned,  by  reading  history  and  ethics,  to  the  question  of 
slavery ;  and  I  soon  reached  the  conclusion  that,  if  one  really 
believed  slavery  to  be  absolutely  and  morally  wrong,  he  had 
no  right  to  take  an  oath  to  support  a  constitution  that  he  did 
not  mean  to  obey  because  it  upheld  slavery." 

Under  the  circumstances  it  was  almost  inevitable  that  he 
should  soon  drift  into  that  little  circle  of  Abolitionists  in  Bos- 
ton, of  which  Garrison  was  the  head,  and  Phillips,  Quincy, 
the  Jackson  brothers  Francis  and  Edmund,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Ellis  Gray  Loring,  the  Chapmans,  the  Westons,  the  Childs, 
the  Mays,  and  others,  were  shining  lights.  "  This  handful 
of  people,"  he  says,  "  to  the  outside  world  a  set  of  pestilent 
fanatics,  were  among  themselves  the  most  charming  circle 
of  cultivated  men  and  women  that  it  has  ever  been  my  lot  to 
know." 

In  Anti-Slavery  he  found  the  first  serious  aim  of  his  life. 
In  1842  he  became  one  of  the  lecturing  agents  of  the  Ameri- 
can Anti-Slavery  Society,  and  in  i84|jr  the  editor  of  the  4t  ' 
Anti-Slavery  Standard,  the  organ  of  the  Society,  published 
in  New  York.  In  that  position  he  remained  for  fourteen 
years,  with  Mr.  Edmund  Quincy,  Maria  Weston  Chapman, 
and  James  Russell  Lowell  as  "  corresponding  editors "  in 
Boston,  for  most  of  the  time  though  at  different  periods. 

In  185$  it  seemed  to  Mr.  Gay  that  the  "cause"  no  longer 
required  that  he  should  devote  himself  exclusively  to  the 
Standard.  He  accordingly  joined  the  staff  of  the  New  York 
Tribune.  Early  in  1862  he  was  appointed  its  managing 
editor,  and  so  remained  until  the  war  was  over,  —  the  sum- 
mer of  i86|.  He  had  broken  down  under  the  long  strain  of 
responsible  editorship,  and  took  two  years  to  recover.  Henry 
Wilson  said  the  man  deserved  well  of  his  country  who  kept 
the  Tribune  a  war  paper  in  spite  of  Greeley. 

15 


114  THE  CLASS   OF  1833. 

In  1867  he  was  asked  to  take  the  place  of  managing  editor 
of  the  Chicago  Tribune.  He  did  so,  and  remained  in  that 
position  till  the  great  fire  in  1871.  In  the  spring  of  1872  he 
was  asked  to  join  the  editorial  staff  of  the  New  York  Evening 
Post.  He  accepted  the  invitation,  and  remained  there  for 
two  years. 

In  1874  a  proposal  was  made  to  Mr.  W.  C.  Bryant,  by 
Scribner,  Armstrong,  &  Co.,  to  join  them  in  getting  out  an 
illustrated  History  of  the  United  States.  He  consented,  on 
condition  that  Mr.  Gay  would  be  its  author,  —  as  that  was  a 
task  which  Mr.  Bryant,  at  the  age  of  eighty,  could  not  under- 
take, and  which  they  did  not  ask.  He  died  before  the  second 
volume  was  published.  Two  of  the  three  partners  also  died 
within  the  same  year,  the  third  was  compelled  to  leave  the 
house,  and  the  publication  fell  into  new  hands  and  a  new 
house.  "This,"  Mr.  Gay  says,  "was  not  a  fortunate  con- 
catenation of  circumstances." 

Excepting  a  Preface  to  the  first  volume,  Mr.  Bryant  did 
not  write,  and  never  intended  to  write,  a  single  line ;  while 
the  mistake  was  made  by  publishers  and  subscription  agents 
of  attempting  to  persuade  the  public  that  he  was  the  author 
of  a  work  of  one  half  of  which  not  a  word  was  written  until 
after  his  death,  and  the  first  part  of  which  he  never  saw  until 
it  was  in  printed  pages. 

"  Whether  the  work  has  any  merit  or  not,"  adds  Mr.  Gay, 
"  this  I  may  note  without  immodesty,  —  that  on  the  appear- 
ance of  the  first  volume  a  new  interest  has  been  aroused  in 
American  history,  which  does  not  seem  a  mere  coincidence ; 
for  all  the  authors  who  have  written,  or  proposed  to  write, 
upon  the  subject,  within  the  last  half-dozen  years,  have  fol- 
lowed the  method  which  I  first  adopted,  and  have  gone  to 
sources,  of  knowledge  which  I  was  the  first  to  use  in  this 
country.  A  new  treatment  of  American  history  has  become 
popular." 

Since  the  Bryant  was  finished,  two  years  ago,  Mr.  Gay's  time 


CHARLES   W.  HARTSHORN.  115 

has  been  devoted  to  newspaper  literary  work,  an  occasional 
magazine  article,  and  a  volume  upon  history  for  young  peo- 
ple, just  finished.  He  has  begun  a  volume  for  Mr.  Morse's 
series  of  American  Statesmen ;  and  another  is  promised  for 
Warner's  series  of  American  Authors. 

In   1845,  Mr.  Gay  married  Elizabeth,   daughter  of  Daniel 
Neall,  of  Philadelphia,  and  granddaughter  of  Warfe^  Mifflin,   Ti/ 
one  of  the  most  eminent  of  the  Friends  of  the  last  century.     / 
They  have  three  living  children  :  Sarah  Mifflin,  Martin  (C.  E., 
graduated,  in  1877,  at  the   Massachusetts  Institute  of  Tech- 
nology), and  Mary  Otis. 


CHARLES  WARREN   HARTSHORN. 

TAUNTON,  June  20,  1882. 

DEAR  HlGGINSON,  — 
According   to    my  best   recollection,  I   was    born    at 
Taunton,  October  8,  1814. 

After  graduation  I  studied  law  one  year  with  Hon.  Horatio 
Pratt  at  Taunton,  then  one  year  in  the  Law  School  at  Cam- 
bridge, then  one  year  with  Hon.  Emory  Washburn  at  Wor- 
cester;—  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1837,  and  practised  with 
Mr.  Washburn  till  1843,  then  alone  for  one  year; — then 
with  J.  C.  Bancroft  Davis,  till  October  6,  1847,  when  I  was 
appointed  Clerk  of  the  Supreme  Judicial  Court  for  Worcester 
County,  which  office  I  held  for  five  years  and  declined  a 
reappointment. 

I  then  acted  as  consulting  counsel,  referee,  and.  auditor 
(not  going  into  court  for  trial  of  cases)  till  July,  1856;  when 
I  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  letter-envelopes,  at  Worces- 
ter, in  which  I  continued  till  1860. 


Il6  THE   CLASS   OF    1833. 

In  1869,  I  removed  to  Taunton,  where  I  have  remained 
ever  since. 

Never  married.  In  the  interval  between  1860  and  1869  I 
kept  up  a  partial  connection  with  my  former  profession,  as 
before,  by  way  of  consultation,  and  acting  as  referee  and 
auditor,  and  re-editing  my  solitary  literary  bantling,  "  The 
New  England  Sheriff." 

Very  truly  yours, 

CHARLES  W.  HARTSHORN. 


WALDO   HIGGINSON. 

WALDO  HIGGINSON,  son  of  Stephen  and  Louisa 
(Storrow)  Higginson,  was  born  in  Boston,  May  i, 
1814.  He  was  fitted  for  college  chiefly  by  Mr.  William 
Wells  of  Cambridge.  He  also  spent  a  year  at  the  Round 
Hill  School  of  Messrs.  Joseph  G.  Cogswell  and  George 
Bancroft,  and  was  for  a  time  at  that  of  Mr.  R.  W.  Emerson 
at  Cambridge.  Graduating  in  1833,  ne  spent  the  subsequent 
year  at  the  South,  chiefly  at  the  home  of  his  brother-in-law, 
Rev.  Dr.  Keith  of  Alexandria,  Virginia.  In  1834-35  he 
studied  law  in  the  office  of  Judge  Jackson  of  Boston.  In  the 
summer  of  1835,  he  gave  up  that  profession,  and  entered  the 
office  of  Col.  Loammi  Baldwin  in  Charlestown,  as  student  in 
Civil  Engineering.  In  the  summer  of  1837,  he  accepted  the 
invitation  of  Mr.  W.  S.  Whitwell,  C.  E.,  to  go  to  Georgia  on 
the  State  Railway  across  the  Alleghanies  under  charge  of 
Col.  S.  H.  Long,  U.  S.  Topographical  Engineers.  In  the 
summer  of  1839,  he  left  this  work  to  accept  the  offer  of  Col. 
J.  M.  Fessenden  as  assistant  engineer  on  the  Eastern  Railroad 
between  Ipswich  and  Newburyport.  When  that  work  was 
completed,  in  1841,  he  established  himself  in  Boston  as  Civil 


ABIEL  ABBOT   LIVERMORE.  117 

Engineer  and  Surveyor,  and  was  there  nearly  four  years.  In 
the  spring  of  1845  he  was  chosen  Agent  and  Engineer  of  the 
Boston  and  Lowell  Railroad  Company,  which  office  he  filled 
till  May  18,  1853,  when  he  was  suddenly,  at  the  age  of  thirty- 
nine,  struck  down  by  paralysis.  This  produced  a  tedious 
illness,  from  which  he  was  long  in  recovering,  and  was  never 
fully  restored. 

In  the  autumn  of  1856,  being  measurably  recovered,  he 
was  chosen  President  of  the  New  England  Railroad  Mutual 
Insurance  Company.  This  enterprise  was  sustained  by  the 
best  companies  in  New  England,  but  the  President,  becoming 
persuaded  in  1859  that  the  mutual  principle  of  insurance  was 
not  adapted  to  railroads,  advised  the  abandonment  of  the 
experiment.  This  was  done,  and  the  company  wound  up  its 
organization  without  loss  to  the  insured.  In  1860,  however, 
he  started  a  new  mutual  insurance  company  designed  for 
manufacturing  establishments,  —  the  "  Arkwright,"  of  which 
he  was  chosen  and  still  remains  President.  This  immediately 
became  successful,  and  has  so  continued. 

In  December,  1845,  he  married  Mary  Davies,  daughter  of 
William  Davies  Sohier,  of  Boston. 

At  Commencement,  1869,  he  was  chosen  Overseer  of  Har- 
vard University.  That  office  he  resigned  on  Commencement, 

1873- 


ABIEL  ABBOT  LIVERMORE. 

A  BIEL  ABBOT  LIVERMORE  has  furnished  the  follow- 
ing autobiographical  sketch. 

"  I  was  born  in  Wilton,  N.  H.,  October  30,  181  r.     My  father, 
Jonathan  Livermore,  was  the  eldest  son  of  Rev.  Jonathan 


Il8  THE  CLASS   OF   1833. 

Livermore,  the  first  minister  of  the  Congregational  Church  of 
that  town.  My  mother,  Abigail  Abbot,  was  the  daughter  of 
Abiel  Abbot,  of  Wilton.  My  youth,  till  I  was  fifteen,  was 
passed,  like  that  of  most  country  boys,  in  hard  work  on  the 
farm  in  summer,  and  in  the  district  school  in  winter.  A 
brother  older  than  myself  shared  with  me  these  toils  and 
pleasures.  Wilton  is  a  picturesque  town  among  bold  hills 
and  mountains,  and  deep  valleys,  and  has  a  vivid  climate,  and 
romantic  scenery  and  surroundings,  fitted  to  tempt  forth  the 
imagination  and  sensibilities  of  a  child. 

In  1826  I  spent  six  months  in  Chelmsford,  Mass.,  with 
my  uncle,  after  whom  I  was  named,  Rev.  Abiel  Abbot,  D.  D., 
and  attended  the  academy  kept  by  Mr.  Wallace.  In  Sep- 
tember of  the  same  year,  I  entered  Phillips  Academy  at 
Exeter,  N.  H.,  then  under  the  care  of  those  eminent  teachers, 
Benjamin  Abbot,  LL.  D.,  Gideon  L.  Soule,  LL.  D.,  and 
Joseph  Hale  Abbot,  A.  M.  Here  I  passed  three  years  fitting 
for  college,  but  for  two  winters  I  was  absent  keeping  district 
school  in  my  native  town.  I  was  examined  and  admitted  to 
the  freshman  class  in  Harvard  College,  in  1829,  without  con- 
ditions. While  in  Cambridge  at  that  time  I  heard  the  splen- 
did oration  of  Orville  Dewey  before  the  society  of  Phi  Beta 
Kappa,  and  caught  some  inspiration  from  his  stirring  chal- 
lenge to  what  is  best  and  highest  in  man.  The  first  college 
year  was  passed  in  Exeter  pursuing  the  Freshman  studies. 
This  was  done  for  the  sake  of  economy.  During  the  four 
years  at  Phillips  Academy  I  boarded  at  the  Misses  Deborah 
and  Hannah  Oilman's,  on  Water  Street.  Returning  to  Cam- 
bridge in  1830,  and  entering  the  sophomore  class  uncondi- 
tioned, the  next  three  years  were  passed  under  the  gentle 
and  brooding  wings  of  our  beloved  Alma  Mater.  Francis 
Bowen  and  I  roomed  together,  and  boarded  the  first  year, 
at  Mrs.  Nichols's,  on  the  northeast  corner  of  the  Common, 
next  door  east  of  Dr.  Pollen's.  Our  teachers  were  that 
wise  and  sainted  band  who  have  long  since  joined  "  the 


ABIEL  ABBOT   LIVERMORE.  119 

choir  invisible,"  -  -  Drs.  Hedge,  Popkin,  Pollen,  Ware,  and 
Beck;  Professors  Farrar,  Channing,  Felton,  Peirce,  Sales, 
Bachi,  Surault,  Barber,  Gushing,  and  Hopkinson ;  our  preach- 
ers, Drs.  Ware,  Palfrey,  and  Henry  Ware,  Jr. ;  and  our  glo- 
rious President,  Josiah  Quincy. 

I  graduated  in  1833,  having  as  a  part  at  Commencement  a 
Dissertation  on  "  The  Effect  of  Maritime  Enterprise  on  the 
Character  of  Nations."  During  college  life  I  belonged  to  the 
Hasty  Pudding  Club,  the  Institute  of  1770,  the  religious 
society,  the  temperance  society,  the  La  Reunion  Sociale,  and 
the  Phi  Beta  Kappa. 

In  1833  I  entered  the  Cambridge  Divinity  School,  under 
the  instruction  of  Dr.  Ware,  Dr.  Henry  Ware,  Jr.,  and  Dr. 
Palfrey,  and  had  for  classmates  Samuel  P.  Andrews,  John  S. 
Dwight,  George  E.  Ellis,  Oliver  C.  Everett,  Theodore  Parker, 
Reuben  Austin,  and  William  Silsbee. 

During  the  last  term  of  the  junior  year,  through  the  senior 
year  of  the  undergraduate  course,  and  for  three  years  in  the 
Divinity  School,  I  was  engaged  in  teaching,  and  fitting  boys 
for  college.  Among  my  beloved  pupils  were  George  and 
Thornton  K.  Ware,  Charlotte  and  Anne  Ware,  children  of 
Dr.  Henry  Ware;  John  F.  W.  Ware,  son  of  Dr.  Henry 
Ware,  Jr.;  Frank  Rotch,  nephew  of  Mrs.  Professor  Farrar; 
Thomas  W.  Higginson ;  Charles  Devens,  late  Attorney-Gen- 
eral of  the  United  States;  Arthur  Devens;  and  Butler  of 
Philadelphia. 

Graduating  from  the  Divinity  School  in  1836,  at  the  age 
of  twenty-five,  I  received  a  call  to  settle  in  Keene,  N.  H., 
and  was  ordained  over  the  Unitarian  Church  in  that  town, 
November  2,  1836.  I  was  married,  May  17,  1838,  to  Eliza- 
beth D.  Abbot,  daughter  of  Rev.  Jacob  Abbot,  of  Windham, 
N.  H.,  who  deceased  September  13,  1879,  after  a  long  and 
happy  married  life,  though  unblessed  with  living  children. 
While  pastor  of  the  Keene  Society  I  published  a  "  Com- 
mentary," in  three  volumes,  on  the  Gospels  and  Acts  of  the 


120  THE   CLASS   OF    1833. 

Apostles ;  also  a  "  Review  of  the  Mexican  War,"  and  several 
occasional  Discourses ;  and  edited  a  "  Marriage  Offering  "  and 
Priestley's  "  Corruptions  of  Christianity."  In  April,  1850, 
I  received  a  call  to  become  the  pastor  of  the  Unitarian 
Society  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  removed  to  that  city  in 
May,  for  the  benefit  of  a  milder  climate ;  my  health  having 
become  impaired  by  a  severe  bronchial  affection. 

In  the  autumn  of  1856  I  removed  to  New  York,  on  an 
invitation  to  become  the  editor  of  the  Christian  Inquirer, 
the  organ  of  the  Unitarian  faith  in  that  city.  I  became  the 
pastor  of  the  Unitarian  Church  in  Yonkers  on  the  Hudson. 
The  joint  duties  of  the  editorship  and  the  pastorate  were 
fulfilled  till  the  summer  of  1863,  when  I  was  invited  to  take 
the  Presidency  of  the  Meadville  Theological  School,  which 
at  the  close  of  the  present  academical  term,  in  June,  1883, 
will  cover  twenty  years.  Beside  the  duties  of  the  school,  I 
have  completed  the  "  Commentary  "  on  the  remaining  books 
of  the  New  Testament,  in  two  volumes,  and  printed  several 
reviews,  sketches  of  travels,  syllabuses  of  lectures,  and  occa- 
sional sermons. 

Thus  I  empty  at  your  feet  this  basket  of  dry  straw,  — 
facts,  names,  dates,  places. 

One  great  happiness  I  have  had,  —  that  of  mediocrity  in 
talents,  position,  possessions,  influence,  name  and  fame.  Ovid 
was  a  wise  man :  "  In  medio  tutissimus  ibis." 

The  broad  lesson  of  seventy-one  years  is  gratitude  to  God 
and  sympathy  with  man." 

MEADVILLE,  PENN.,  November,  1882. 


JOSEPH   LOVERING.  121 


JOSEPH   LOVERING. 

THE  following  notice  is  mainly  from  "The  Harvard 
Book,"  published  in  1874,  with  some  additions  and 
amendments  furnished  by  Professor  Levering. 

Joseph  Levering  was  born  in  Charlestown,  Massachusetts, 
on  December  25,  1813.  He  was  the  son  of  Robert  Levering, 
surveyor  of  ice,  wood,  and  lumber.  He  attended  one  of  the 
ordinary  grammar  schools  of  his  native  town  until  he  was 
fourteen  years  of  age,  and  went  through  Colburn's  Algebra 
by  himself  at  this  school,  his  teachers  having  no  knowledge 
whatever  of  that  subject.  On  leaving  school,  he  was  en- 
couraged by  his  pastor,  Rev.  Dr.  James  Walker  (afterwards 
Professor  and  President  of  Harvard  College),  to  fit  himself 
for  college,  reciting  to  him  daily,  and  receiving  from  him  in 
many  ways  the  most  valuable  aid.  He  entered  the  sopho- 
more class  of  Harvard  College  in  1830,  and  graduated  with 
his  class  in  1833.  During  his  college  course  he  received  two 
appointments  for  exhibitions,  and  a  mathematical  part  which 
was  not  spoken. 

At  the  Commencement  he  delivered  the  Latin  Salutatory 
Oration,  which  at  that  time  was  invariably  assigned  to  the 
fourth  scholar  in  the  scale  of  rank.  This  Commencement  was 
made  interesting  by  the  fact  that  it  was  the  last  one  held  in 
the  old  church,  which  stood  near  the  spot  now  occupied 
by  the  Law  School.  Three  years  later,  when  his  class  were 
entitled  to  receive  the  Master's  degree,  he  delivered  the 
Valedictory  Oration  in  Latin,  according  to  the  custom  of  that 
day.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Davy  Club,  the  Institute,  the 
Hasty  Pudding  Club,  and  the  $  B  K  Society.  During  the 
first  year  after  his  graduation,  he  taught  a  small  private 
school  in  Charlestown.  In  the  autumn  of  1834  he  entered 
the  Divinity  School  in  Cambridge,  and  remained  there  for 


122  THE   CLASS   OF   1833. 

two  years.  During  a  part  of  the  academical  year  1834-35 
he  assisted  Professor  Peirce  in  the  instruction  of  the  College 
classes  in  mathematics.  In  1835-36  he  was  Proctor  and 
Instructor  in  Mathematics,  and  during  a  part  of  the  year 
conducted  the  morning  and  evening  services  in  the  College 
Chapel;  all  those  who  usually  officiated  at  the  devotional 
exercises  of  the  College  being  either  sick  or  absent  from 
Cambridge.  In  1836-37  he  was  Tutor  in  Mathematics,  and 
Lecturer  in  Natural  Philosophy.  In  1838  he  was  made 
Hollis  Professor  of  Mathematics  and  Natural  Philosophy,  a 
position  which  he  still  holds. 

In  1853-54  he  acted  as  Regent  during  Professor  Felton's 
absence  in  Europe,  and  in  1857  he  succeeded  him  in  that 
office,  and  held  it  until  1870.  In  consideration  of  his  long 
and  uninterrupted  services  to  the  College,  he  was  offered  a 
year's  leave  of  absence  in  1868-69,  which  he  passed  in 
Europe. 

In  1879,  he  received  from  Harvard  College,  with  his  class- 
mates Professors  Bowen  and  Torrey,  the  degree  of  LL.  D. 

He  was  married,  in  1844,  to  Sarah  Gray  Hawes,  of  Boston. 
He  has  two  daughters,  Cora  Lovering  and  Eva  Levering. 
His  two  sons  have  graduated  at  Harvard  College ;  James 
Walker  Lovering  in  1866,  and  Ernest  Lovering  in  1881. 

Although  his  best  time  and  thoughts  were  given  to  his 
college  duties,  he  found  some  leisure  for  other  work.  At 
different  times  he  delivered  nine  courses,  of  twelve  lectures 
each,  on  Astronomy  or  Physics,  before  the  Lowell  Institute  in 
Boston ;  five  of  which  were  repeated  to  a  different  audience 
on  the  days  following  their  first  delivery,  according  to  the 
original  practice  of  that  institution.  He  gave  shorter  courses 
of  lectures  at  the  Smithsonian  Institution  in  Washington, 
the  Peabody  Institute  of  Baltimore,  and  the  Charitable  Me- 
chanics' Institution  of  Boston,  and  one  or  more  lectures  in 
many  towns  and  cities  of  New  England. 

In  1842  he  edited  a  new  edition  of  Farrar's  "Electricity 


JOSEPH   LOVERING.  123 

and  Magnetism,"  at  the  request  of  the  author.  In  1873,  he 
published  a  thick  quarto  volume  on  the  Aurora  Borealis,  in 
the  Memoirs  of  the  American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences. 
Other  memoirs,  on  Terrestrial  Magnetism,  on  the  Aurora, 
and  on  the  Determination  of  Transatlantic  Longitudes,  have 
been  published  by  him  in  the  same  series. 

Besides  these  more  important  works,  he  has  contributed  a 
large  number  of  scientific  articles  and  reviews  to  the  Pro- 
ceedings of  the  American  Academy,  to  the  Proceedings  of 
the  American  Association  for  the  Advancement  of  Science, 
to  the  American  Journal  of  Science,  to  the  Journal  of  the 
Franklin  Institute,  to  the  American  Almanac,  to  the  North 
American  Review,  to  the  Christian  Examiner,  to  Old  and 
New,  and  to  the  Popular  Science  Monthly. 

He  was  Permanent  Secretary  of  the  American  Association 
for  the  Advancement  of  Science  for  nineteen  years  (between 
1854  and  1873),  and  edited  fifteen  volumes  of  its  Proceed- 
ings. He  was  also  its  President  in  1873. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Academy  of  Arts  and 
Sciences  in  Boston,  was  its  Corresponding  Secretary  for 
many  years,  afterwards  Vice-President,  and  is  now  its  Presi- 
dent. He  is  also  a  member  of  the  National  Academy  of 
Sciences,  of  the  American  Philosophical  Society  of  Phila- 
delphia, and  of  the  Buffalo  Historical  Society. 

From  1867  to  1876  he  was  connected  with  the  United 
States  Coast  Survey,  and  had  charge  of  the  computations  for 
determining  differences  of  longitude  in  the  United  States, 
and  across  the  Atlantic  Ocean,  by  means  of  the  land  and 
cable  lines  of  telegraph. 

For  some  years  he  has  been  one  of  the  Trustees  of  the 
Tyndall  Fund  for  the  endowment  of  scientific  research. 

The  secretary  has  been  furnished  by  Professor  Levering 
with  the  following  catalogue  of  his  publications,  together 
with  subjects  lectured  on,  in  different  years,  at  the  Lowell 
Institute. 


124  THE   CLASS    OF    1833. 


CATALOGUE  OF  PUBLICATIONS. 

1 .  An  Account  of  the  Magnetic  Observations  made  at  the  Magnetic 

Observatory  of  Harvard  College.     In  Two  Parts.     (Memoirs 
of  the  American  Academy,  Vol.  II.  pp.  1-160.) 

2.  On  the  Secular  Periodicity  of  the  Aurora  Borealis.    (Ibid.,  Vol.  IX. 

pp.  101-120.) 

3.  On  the  Determination  of  Transatlantic  Longitudes  by  Means  of 

the  Telegraphic  Cables.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  IX.  pp.  437-477.) 

4.  Catalogue  of  Auroras  observed,  mostly  at  Cambridge,  after  1838. 

(Ibid.,  Vol.  X.  pp.  1-8.) 

5.  On  the  Periodicity  of  the  Aurora  Borealis.    In  Two  Parts.    (Ibid., 

Vol.  X.  pp.  9-351,  with  plates.) 

6.  On  the  Causes  of  the  Difference  in  the  Strength  of  Ordinary 

Magnets,  and  Electro-Magnets,  of  the  same  Size  and  Shape. 
(Proceedings  of  the  American  Academy,  Vol.  II.  p.  105.) 

7.  On  the  Law  of  Continuity.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  II.  p.  120.) 

8.  On  the  Aneroid  Barometer.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  II.  p.  186.) 

9.  Electrical  Experiment.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  IV.  p.  251.) 

10.  On  the  Connection  of  Electricity  with  Tornadoes.    (Ibid.,  Vol.  II. 

P-  293-)  - 

11.  On  Coronae  and  Halos.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  II.  p.  302.) 

12.  On  the  Stereoscope.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  III.  p.  22.) 

13.  On  the  Bioscope.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  III.  p.  106.) 

14.  Apparatus  for  Rapid  Rotations.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  III.  p.  107.) 

15.  Shape  of  Luminous  Spots  in  Solar  Eclipses.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  III. 

p.  1 60.) 

1 6.  Notice  of  the  death  of  John  Farrar.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  III.  p.  38.) 

17.  Notice  of  the  death  of  Melloni.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  III.  p.  164.) 

1 8.  New  Apparatus  and  Experiments  in  Optics  and  Acoustics.    (Ibid., 

Vol.  III.  p.  169.) 

19.  Arago's  Opinion  of  Table-moving.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  III.  p.  187.) 

20.  On  Fessel's  Gyroscope.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  III.  p.  206.) 

21.  Apparatus  to  regulate  the  Electric  Light.    (Ibid.,  Vol.  III.  p.  225.) 

22.  Does  the  Mississippi  River  flow  up-hill?    (Ibid.,  Vol.  III.  p.  229.) 

23.  Report  on  Hedgcock's  Quadrant.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  III.  p.  384.) 

24.  On  the  Boomerang.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  IV.  p.  12.) 

25.  Report  on  Meteorological  Observations.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  IV.  p.  34.) 

26.  On  the  Ocean  Cable.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  IV.  p.  79.) 


JOSEPH   LOVERING.  125 

27.  On  the  Polarization  of  the  Light  of  Comets.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  IV. 

p.  100.) 

28.  Report  on  the  Polar  Expedition  of  Dr.  I.   I.  Hayes.     (Ibid., 

Vol.  IV.  pp.  103  and  423.) 

29.  On  Records  of  the  Aurora  Borealis.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  IV.  p.  325.) 

30.  First   Observations   of   the   Aurora  in   New   England.      (Ibid., 

Vol.  IV.  p.  336.) 

31.  Notice  of  the  death  of  Biot.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  VI.  p.  16.) 

32.  On  the  Velocity  of  Light  and  the  Sun's  Distance.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  VI. 

p.  114.) 

33.  Notice  of  the  death  of  O.  M.  Mitchel.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  VI.  p.  133.) 

34.  On  the  Optical  Method  of  studying  Sound.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  VII. 

P-  4I3-) 

35.  On  the  Periodicity  of  the  Aurora  Borealis.     (Ibid.  Vol.  VIII. 

P-  55-) 

36.  On  the  French  Republican  Calendar.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  VIII.  p.  348.) 

37.  Application  of  Electricity  to  the  Motion  of  Tuning  Forks.    (Ibid., 

Vol.  VIII.  p.  53.) 

38.  On  Optical  Meteorology.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  VIII.  p.  213.) 

39.  On  Transatlantic  Longitudes.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  VIII.  p.  502.) 

40.  Notice  of  the  death  of  William  Mitchell.      (Ibid.,  Vol.  VIII. 

P-  I31-) 

41.  Notice  of  the  death  of  Faraday.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  VIII.  p.  31.) 

42.  Notice  of  the  death  of  David  Brewster.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  VIII.  p.  38.) 

43.  Notice  of  the  death  of  J.  F.  W.  Herschel.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  VIII. 

p.  461.) 

44.  Notice  of  the  death  of  Christopher  Hansteen.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  IX. 

p.  282.) 

45.  Notice  of  the  death  of  Auguste  A.  de  la  Rive.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  IX. 

P-  356-) 

46.  Notice  of  the  death  of  James  Walker.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  X.  p.  485.) 

47.  Notice  of  the  death  of  Joseph  Winlock.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  XI.  p.  339.) 

48.  Notice  of  the  death  of  Alexis  Caswell.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  XII.  p.  307.) 

49.  Notice  of  the  death  of  John  H.  Temple.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  XIII. 

p.  449.) 

50.  Notice  of  the  death  of  Joseph  Henry.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  XIV.  p.  356.) 

51.  Notice  of  the  death  of  H.  W.  Dove.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  XV.  p.  383.) 

52.  Address    as   President   on   presenting    the   Rumford    Medal  to 

J.  Willard  Gibbs.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  XVI.  p.  292.) 

53.  Anticipations  of  the  Lissajous  Curves.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  XVI.  p.  415.) 


126  THE   CLASS   OF  1833. 

54.  Notices  of  the  deaths  of  Richard  H.  Dana,  of  Edward  Desor, 

and  of  John  W.  Draper.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  XVII.  p.  399,  &c.) 

55.  On  the  Electro-dynamic  Forces.     (Proceedings  of  the  American 

Association  for  the  Advancement  of  Science,  Vol.  II.  p.  278.) 

56.  On  a  curious  Phenomenon  relating  to  Vision.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  II. 

p.  369.) 

57.  On  a  singular  Case  of  Interference  in  the  Eye  itself.      (Ibid., 

Vol.  VII.  p.  23.) 

58.  On  a  Modification  of  SoleiFs  Polarizing  Apparatus.     (Ibid.,  Vol. 

VII.  p.  24.) 

59.  On    the   Australian   Weapon   called    the    Boomerang.      (Ibid., 

Vol.  XII.  p.  45.) 

60.  On  the  Optical  Method  of  studying  Sound.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  XVI. 

P-  25-) 

6 1.  On  the  Periodicity  of  the  Aurora  Borealis.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  XVI. 

p.  82.) 

62.  Sympathetic   Vibrations    between    Tuning-Forks   and   Stretched 

Cords.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  XVII.  p.  103.) 

63.  On  Methods  of  illustrating  Optical   Meteorology.     (Ibid.,  Vol. 

XIX.  p.  64.) 

64.  On  Sympathetic  Vibrations.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  XXI.  p.  59,  and  Journal 

of  Franklin  Institute,  May,  1873.) 

65.  Addresses  as  President  at  the  Portland  Meeting.     (Ibid.,  Vol. 

XXII.  pp.  417-427.) 

66.  On  a  new  Way  of  illustrating  the  Vibrations  of  Air  in  Organ-Pipes. 

(Ibid.,  Vol.  XXIII.  p.  113.) 

67.  Address  as  retiring  President.      (Ibid.,  Vol.  XXIII.  pp.   1-36. 

Republished  in  the  Popular  Science  Monthly,  American  Jour- 
nal of  Science,  and  the  London  Philosophical  Magazine.) 

68.  On   a  new  Method   of  Measuring   the  Velocity  of  Electricity. 

(Ibid.,  Vol.  XXIV.  p.  35.     Also,  Journ.  de  Physique,  Tom.  VI. 

P-  259-) 

69.  Shooting   Stars.      (American  Journal   of  Science,   Vol.   XXXV. 

P-  323-) 

70.  The  American  Prime  Meridian.     (Ibid.,  N.  S.,  Vol.  IX  p.  184.) 

71.  The  Aneroid  Barometer.     (Ibid.,  N.  S.,  Vol.  IX.  p.  249.) 

72.  On  the  Velocity  of  Light  and  the  Sun's  Distance.     (Ibid.,  N.  S., 

Vol.  XXXVI.  p.  1 6 1.) 

73.  Melloni's  Researches  on  Radiant  Heat.      (American  Almanac, 

1850,  pp.  64-81.) 


JOSEPH   LOVERING.  127 

74.  Animal  Electricity.     (Ibid.,  1851,  pp.  74-89.) 

75.  Recent  Discoveries  in  Astronomy.     (Ibid.,  1852,  pp.  66-90.) 

76.  Comets.     (Ibid.,  1853,  pp.  68-88.) 

77.  Atmospherical  Electricity.     (Ibid.,  1854,  pp.  70-82,  and  1855, 

pp.  65-76.) 

78.  Lightning  and  Lightning  Rods.     (Ibid.,  1856,  pp.  65-85.) 

79.  Terrestrial  Magnetism.     (Ibid.,  1857,  pp.  67-84.) 

80.  Theories  of  Terrestrial  Magnetism.     (Ibid.,  1858,  pp.  67-80.) 

81.  On  the  Boomerang.     (Ibid.,  1859,  pp.  67-76.) 

82.  On  the  Aurora  Borealis  and  Australis.     (Ibid.,  1860,  pp.  55-76.) 

83.  On  Meteorology.     (Ibid.,  1861,  pp.  58-80.) 

84.  On  the  Pressure  of  the  Atmosphere  and  the  Barometer.     (Ibid., 

1862,  pp.  42-67.) 

REVIEWS. 

85.  Guyot's  Physical  Geography.     (Christian  Examiner,  Vol.  XLVII. 

p.  96.) 

86.  Humboldt's  Cosmos.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  XLVIII.  pp.  53-88.) 

87.  Skepticism  in  Science.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  LI.  pp.  209-250.) 

88.  Spiritual  Mechanics.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  LV.  pp.  1-21.) 

89.  Thompson   and    Kaemtz   on    Meteorology.      (North  American 

Review,  Vol.  LXXI.  pp.  5 1-99.) 

90.  Elementary  Works  on  Physical  Science.     (Ibid.,  Vol.  LXXII. 

PP-  358-395-) 

91.  Michael  Faraday.     (Old  and  New,  Vol.  I.  p.  47.) 

92.  Reports   on    Lighthouses.      By   Benjamin    Peirce   and    Joseph 

Lovering.      (Journal   of  the   Franklin  Institute,  Vol.   XVIII. 
p.  249,  1849.) 

93.  On  the  Internal  Equilibrium  and  Motion  of  Bodies.     (Cambridge 

Mathematical  Miscellany,  Vol.  I.  pp.  31-41.) 

94.  On  the  Application  of  Mathematical  Analysis  to  Researches  in 

the  Physical  Sciences.     (Ibid.,  pp.  33-81  and  121-130.) 

95.  Encke's  Comet.     (Ibid.,  pp.  82-92.) 

96.  The  Divisibility  of  Matter.     (Ibid.,  pp.  169-182.) 

97.  Boston  and  Science.     (Memorial  History  of  Boston,  Vol.  IV. 

PP-  4S9-526-) 

98.  Article  on  the  Telegraph.     (American  Cyclopaedia,  last  edition.) 

99.  Address  at  the  Dedication  of  the  Mural  Monument  to  the  Mem- 

ory of  Dr.  James  Walker,  in  the  Harvard  Church,  Charles- 
town. 


128  THE   CLASS    OF    1833. 


SUBJECTS  OF  LECTURES  AT  THE  LOWELL  INSTITUTE. 

1840-41.  Electricity  and  Magnetism. 

1841-42.  Mechanics. 

1842-43.  Astronomy. 

1843-44.  Optics. 

1845-46.  Astronomy. 

1853-54.  Electricity  and  Magnetism. 

1859-60.  Astronomy. 

1865-66.  Light  and  Sound. 

1879-80.  Connection  of  the  Physical  Sciences. 

He  also  edited,  Memoirs  of  the  American  Academy  of  Arts  and 
Sciences.  Six  volumes,  from  V.  to  X.  inclusive,  and  part  of  Volume 
XI. 

Also,  Proceedings  of  the  same  Academy,  Volumes  VII.,  VIII,  and 
XVII. 


T 


ROBERT  TRAILL   SPENCE   LOWELL. 

HE  following  statement  is  kindly  furnished  by  Robert  T. 
S.  Lowell,  under  date  of  Schenectady,  July  5,  1882. 


"  After  graduation,  I  went  through  a  full  course  of  medi- 
cine without  taking  a  degree.  In  1835  or  1836  went  into 
business  under  my  eldest  brother.  After  leaving  that  occu- 
pation, went  to  Schenectady  to  study  for  holy  orders,  under 
Rev.  Dr.  A.  Potter,  then  lately  from  St.  Paul's  Church, 
Boston.  Meeting  the  Bishop  of  Newfoundland  (with  Ber- 
muda), Dr.  Spencer,  went,  at  his  suggestion,  to  be  ordained 
by  him  in  Bermuda,  having  already  passed  examination  and 
being  about  to  be  ordained  by  Bishop  Griswold  of  Massachu- 
setts. Was  ordained  Deacon  in  1842  and  Priest  in  1843,  and 
appointed  domestic  chaplain  to  the  Bishop.  Asked  for  and 


ROBERT   T.  S.  LOWELL.  I  2Q 

got  an  appointment  to  Bay  Roberts,  Newfoundland,  as  mis- 
sionary under  the  English  Society  for  Propagating  the  Gos- 
pel. Came  home  and  married  Mary  Ann,  eldest  daughter  of 
James  Duane,  of  Duane.  After  a  famine  in  which  I  broke 
down  by  serving  and  sharing  with  my  parishioners,  having 
received  the  thanks  of  the  Colonial  Secretary,  came  home. 
By  appointment  of  Bishop  Doane,  began  a  mission  in  a  poor 
quarter  of  Newark,  N.  J.,  rebuilt  a  beautiful  little  church,  and 
after  eleven  years'  service,  chiefly  among  the  poor,  in  1859 
accepted  the  rectorship  of  Christ  Church,  Duanesburg,  N.  Y., 
a  parish  founded  by  Judge  Duane,  my  wife's  great-grand- 
father, who  was  appointed  by  Washington  United  States  Dis- 
trict Judge  in  New  York,  by  the  same  act  by  which  my  own 
grandfather,  John  Lowell,  was  appointed  to  the  same  office  in 
Massachusetts.  In  1868,  chosen  Professor  of  Belles- Lettres 
in  Racine  College,  Wisconsin,  but  declined.  After  ten  years' 
work  among  the  farmers  at  Duanesburg,  accepted  the  head- 
mastership  of  St.  Mark's  School,  Southborough,  Mass.  In 
1873  was  chosen  Professor  of  Latin  Language  and  Literature 
in  Union  University,  Schenectady,  N.  Y.,  and  in  1879  re- 
signed that  place. 

"Have  published  the  following:  — 

The  New  Priest  in  Conception  Bay  (several  moderate  editions). 

Fresh  Hearts  that  failed  Three  Thousand  Years  ago,  and  other  Poems. 

Poems  by  Author  of  "  The  New  Priest,"  &c. 

Antony  Drade,  a  Story  of  a  School. 

A  Story  or  Two  from  an  Old  Dutch  Town. 

"  Of  course  many  stray  things  in  prose  and  verse,  of  which, 
perhaps,  I  may  mention  the  Harvard  Commemoration  Hymn, 
which  Mr.  Thomas  Hughes  has  quoted  several  times,  a  hymn 
for  the  dedication  of  the  Town  Hall  in  Southborough,  Mass., 
and  a  poem  for  the  Centennial  Celebration  by  the  citizens  of 
Saratoga  County  of  the  battle  (with  Burgoyne)  at  Bemis 
Heights." 


130  THE   CLASS   OF    1833. 

Mr.  Lowell  also  writes,  October  20,  1882,  that  he  has  six 
children  living,  as  follows :  — 

Perceval  (H.  C.  1870),  now  General  Passenger  Agent  of  the  Chicago, 

Burlington,  and  Quincy  Railroad. 
James  Duane  (H.  C.  1874,  and  Lawrence  S.  S.  1877),  now  among 

the  miners  in  Colorado. 
Charles  is  Manager  of  the  Bombay  Branch  of  the  Comptoir  d'Es- 

compte  de  Paris. 
Robert  Traill  Spence  (Union  C.  1880)  is  in  Chicago  in  the  service  of 

the  Chicago,  Burlington,  and  Quincy  Railroad. 
And  two  daughters,  Mary  Anna  and  Rebecca  Russell. 

None  of  his  children  are  married. 


WILLIAM   MACK. 

THE  secretary  has  received  the  following  notice  of 
this  classmate,  from  a  well-informed  and  judicious 
chronicler. 

"  William  Mack,  son  of  Elisha  and  Catherine  Sewall  Pyn- 
chon  (Orne)  Mack,  was  born  in  Salem,  Mass.,  August  11, 
1814.  Prepared  for  college  at  the  Latin  Grammar  School, 
Salem,  then  under  the  charge  of  Theodore  Eames,  Esq. 
Graduated  at  Harvard  University  in  the  class  of  1833.  The 
two  years  following  his  graduation,  was  a  teacher  in  New 
Bedford,  Mass.  In  1835  commenced  the  study  of  medicine 
with  John  C.  Warren,  M.  D.,  of  Boston;  the  last  year  of  his 
medical  course,  the  House  Surgeon  in  Massachusetts  Gen- 
eral Hospital;  received  the  degree  of  M.  D.  in  1838,  at 
Harvard. 

"  Passed  two  years  in  Europe,  devoting  his  time  to  his  pro- 
fessional studies  in  Paris,  to  visiting  the  hospitals  and  schools 
in  some  of  the  principal  cities,  and  to  foreign  travel. 

"He  returned  to  this  country  in  the  autumn  of  1840,  and 


GEORGE   HENRY  NICHOLS.  131 

commenced  the  practice  of  the  profession  in  Salem,  where  he 
has  continued  to  the  present  time,  taking  a  leading  position 
among  the  physicians  and  surgeons  of  this  city  and  its 
vicinity. 

"  He  has  always  been  interested  in  the  scientific  and  literary 
institutions  of  his  native  place,  and  in  some  of  them  held 
prominent  positions ;  and  has  also  rendered  assistance  to  the 
promotion  of  some  of  the  industries  that  have  from  time  to 
time  been  introduced." 


GEORGE   HENRY  NICHOLS. 

BOSTON,  August  23, 1882. 

DEAR  WALDO,  —  I  will  with  pleasure  answer  your  ques- 
tions. 

I  was  born  in  Portland,  Me.,  August  26,  1814.  I  entered 
Exeter  Academy,  August,  1825.  I  entered  Harvard  College, 
August,  1829.  After  leaving  college,  having  adopted  the 
medical  profession,  I  graduated  at  the  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, March,  1836,  after  two  years'  study  there,  having  pre- 
viously studied  one  year  at  Bowdoin  College.  Was  married, 
November,  1836,  to  Sarah  A.  Atherton,  of  Portland,  Me. 
Practised  my  profession  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  about  one  year 
and  a  half.  Removed  to  Standish,  Me.,  June,  1839.  Prac- 
tised there  twenty  years.  Removed  to  Boston,  June,  1859, 
where  I  still  reside,  in  the  same  street  to  which  I  at  first  came. 
Have  had  six  children ;  three  are  living  at  this  date. 

Sincerely  your  friend, 

GEO.  H.  NICHOLS. 

The  secretary  adds  to  the  above  the  following:  — 

The  eldest  son  of  Dr.  Nichols  is  Dr.  John  T.  G.  Nichols, 
well  known  as  a  physician  in  Cambridge.  He  took  a  medi- 


132  THE   CLASS    OF    1833. 

cal  degree  at  Harvard  in  1859,  and  has  long  been  upon 
the  Examining  Board  of  the  University  appointed  by  the 
Overseers.  He  married  a  daughter  of  Dr.  Oilman,  of  Port- 
land, Me.,  and  has  now  three  children.  A  younger  son,  W. 
A.  Nichols,  graduated  at  the  Lawrence  Scientific  School  in 
1865,  and  is  holding  an  important  post  in  the  Engineering 
Department  of  New  York  City.  He  is  unmarried. 

The  only  surviving  daughter  married  F.  L.  Hills,  a  West 
Point  graduate,  who  has  now  a  responsible  position  on  the 
New  York  and  New  England  Railroad.  They  have  three  chil- 
dren. A  younger  daughter  married  R.  C.  Johnson  (H.  C. 
1864),  and  died  some  years  ago,  leaving  two  children. 

So  that  our  classmate  has  eight  grandchildren. 


WILLIAM   DANDRIDGE   PECK. 

WILLIAM  DANDRIDGE  PECK,  after  graduating, 
studied  medicine  with  Dr.  George  Cheyne  Shattuck 
(the  first  of  that  name),  of  Boston,  completing  his  prepara- 
tory studies  with  Dr.  Wilder,  of  Leominster,  Mass.  On  taking 
his  degree  as  M.  D.,  he  accepted  an  invitation  of  Dr.  Kendall, 
an  old  physician  of  Sterling,  Mass.,  to  begin  practice  there  as 
his  partner.  In  1838  he  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Dr. 
Wilder.  She  died  in  1853,  leaving  two  daughters.  Two  years 
after  her  death,  he  married  Mary  Esther  Willard,  of  Sterling, 
by  whom  he  had  another  daughter,  born  in  1871.  He  gave 
up  practice  a  few  years  after  his  first  marriage,  and  thence- 
forth devoted  himself  to  the  affairs  of  the  town  and  county. 
In  connection  with  that  useful  avocation,  he  has  been  a  direc- 
tor in  various  important  institutions  whose  central  offices  were 
in  the  cities  of  Worcester  and  Fitchburg.  In  1848  and  1849, 
and  again  in  1854,  he  represented  Sterling  in  the  General 
Court,  and  in  1859  he  was  in  the  State  Senate. 


EDWARD  J.  STEARNS.  133 


WILLIAM   MACKAY  PRICHARD. 

WILLIAM  MACKAY  PRICHARD,  after  graduating, 
chose  the  profession  of  the  law.  He  studied  in  New 
York  City  with  Mr.  William  Emerson  (H.  C.  1818).  On  being 
admitted  to  the  bar,  he  formed  a  partnership  with  that  gentle- 
man. This  continued  until  Judge  Emerson  gave  up  practice 
and  retired  to  spend  his  last  years  with  his  younger  brother, 
Ralph  Waldo,  at  Concord,  Mass.  Mr.  Prichard  next  formed  a 
connection  with  William  G.  Choate  (H.  C.  1852).  This  lasted 
until  Mr.  Choate  was  appointed  United  States  District  Judge. 

The  law  firm  as  originally  formed,  of  Emerson  and  Prich- 
ard, and  continued  to  the  present  time  with  younger  men,  of 
which  Mr.  Prichard  has  long  been  senior  partner,  has  always 
maintained  an  eminently  respectable  and  thoroughly  reliable 
position  at  the  New  York  Bar. 

Mr.  Prichard  married,  in  April,  1852,  Miss  Eliza  Plummer, 
of  New  York  City. 


EDWARD   JOSIAH   STEARNS. 

FAULKLAND,  DEL.,  September  7,  1882. 

MY  DEAR  HIGGINSON, — 
I  send  you  herewith,  as  I  promised  you  two  or  three 
months  ago,  "  the  most  important  facts  of  my  life." 

Born  in  Bedford,  Middlesex  County,  Mass.,  Feb.  24,  1810; 
brought  up  a  Puritan  of  "  the  straitest  sect " ;  prepared  for 
College,  first  at  the  Academy  at  Concord,  where  I  boarded  in 
the  family  of  John  Thoreau,  father  of  Henry  David  (or,  as  he 
was  then  called,  David  Henry)  Thoreau,  —  afterwards  at  the 


134  THE   CLASS   OF  1833. 

Warren  Academy,  Woburn;  entered  the  freshman  class  at 
Amherst  at  the  beginning  of  the  third  term,  May,  1830; 
entered  sophomore  at  Harvard  in  September  of  the  same 
year ;  after  graduating,  went  to  Norfolk,  Va. ;  taught  in  a 
private  family  there,  from  September  to  February,  and  (as 
you  may  remember)  in  a  classical  school  in  Alexandria,  D.  C., 
from  March  to  August;  had  charge,  the  next  year,  of  a  clas- 
sical school  at  the  "Five  Corners,"  Dorchester,  Mass. ;  entered 
the  Theological  Seminary  at  Andover,  October,  1835;  left 
there  the  following  January,  and  studied  in  private ;  "  licensed 
to  preach"  by  the  Woburn  Association,  April,  1836;  in  1839, 
"  Preceptor  "  of  the  Fuller  Academy,  West  Newton ;  became 
a  Churchman  that  year ;  ordained  Deacon  by  Bishop  Griswold, 
on  Trinity  Sunday,  1840,  in  St.  Mary's  Church,  Newton  Lower 
Falls,  and  took  charge  of  St.  James's  Church,  Amesbury; 

1841,  Professor  in  Jubilee  College,  Peoria  County,  Illinois; 

1842,  instructor  in  a  young  ladies'  school,  Richmond,  Va. ; 

1843,  ordained  Priest   by  Bishop  Whittingham,  the   fourth 
Sunday   in    Advent,    in    St.  Peter's    Church,  Baltimore,  and 
became  Rector  of  Grace  Church,  Elk  Ridge  Landing,  Md. ; 

1845,  Professor  in  the  College  of  St.  James,  near  Hagerstown ; 

1846,  Professor  in  the  Baltimore  "  Central  Male  High  School " 
(now  City  College)  ;    1847,  Rector  of  St.  Peter's  Church,  Elli- 
cott  City;    1849,  Professor  in  St.  John's  College,  Annapolis; 
1853,  instructor  in  a  classical  school  in  Philadelphia;    1854, 
Professor  in  St.  Timothy's  Hall,  Catonsville,  near  Baltimore ; 
1856,  Submaster  of  the  Public  Latin  School,  Boston;    1857, 
in  ill  health  and  laid  on  the  shelf;    1858,  instructor  in  Mystic 
Hall  Seminary  for  Young  Ladies,  West  Medford  ;  1859,  again 
at  St.  Timothy's,  Catonsville;  July,  1860,  to  May,  1861,  at  my 
mother's  in  Bedford,  she  being  paralytic  and  bed-ridden,  and 
my  brother,  Elijah  W.  (class    of   1838),  having  had  a  leg 
amputated,  and  lying  hovering  between  life  and  death,  all  that 
autumn  and  winter;  April  22,  hanged  and  burned  in  effigy  in 

fr 

my  native  place  by  certain  "  lewd  fellows  of  the  baser  sort," 


EDWARD  J.  STEARNS.  135 

and  some  more  respectable  ones  gone  crazy  by  the  war ;  it 
did  them  good,  and  didn't  hurt  me;  May  i,  went  from  Bed- 
ford to  Newark,  N.  J.,  and  took  charge  of  The  House  of 
Prayer,  in  the  absence  of  the  Rector  in  Europe  (in  the  Vestry 
were  United  States  Senator  Wright  and  Ex-Governor  Price)  ; 
September  26  (being  the  Fast  Day  appointed  by  President 
Lincoln)  preached  a  sermon  entitled  "  The  Sword  of  the 
Lord,"  from  Jer.  xlvii.  6;  September  30,  left  Newark  for 
Baltimore ;  at  the  request  of  friends  there  and  in  Newark, 
published  the  sermon,  through  Waters,  Baltimore ;  it  went 
rapidly  to  the  third  edition,  more  than  twelve  hundred  copies 
being  sold  in  a  few  weeks;  1862,  Rector  of  St.  Paul's  Parish, 
Centreville,  Md. ;  February  2,  fourth  Sunday  after  Epiphany, 
preached  a  sermon  entitled  "  The  Powers  that  Be,"  from  the 
epistle  for  the  day,  Rom.  xiii.  I  ;  this  was  also  published  by 
Waters;  1864,  again  at  St.  Timothy's,  Catonsville ;  1866,  in- 
structor in  a  classical  school  at  Cambridge,  Md. ;  1868,  Chap- 
lain of  the  Maryland  Hospital  for  the  Insane;  1869,  Associate 
Editor  of  Bledsoe's  Southern  Review;  1870,  in  charge  of 
Trinity  Parish,  Elkton,  Md.,  in  the  absence  of  the  Rector; 
1871  to  1878.  Rector  of  St.  Mary's  Whitechapel  Parish,  Den- 
ton,  Md. 

Since  1878  I  have  been  pretty  much  laid  on  the  shelf, 
except  with  my  pen.  Among  its  productions,  besides  those 
already  mentioned,  are  these :  — 

Notes  on  Uncle  Tom's  Cabin.  Philadelphia:  Lippincott,  1853. 
i2mo,  pp.  210. 

Afterpiece  to  the  Comedy  of  Convocation.  Hartford  :  Church  Press 
Company,  1870.  i6mo,  pp.  168. 

Birth  and  New  Birth  :  A  New  Treatment  of  an  Old  Subject.  Second 
Edition.  Baltimore:  George  Lycett,  1873.  i6mo,  pp.  122. 

The  Faith  of  Our  Forefathers,  being  an  Examination  of  Archbishop 
Gibbons's  "Faith  of  Our  Fathers."  New  York:  T.  Whittaker, 
1879.  Fifth  Edition,  1881.  i2mo,  pp.  380. 

The  Archbishop's  Champion  brought  to  Book.  New  York  :  T.  Whit- 
taker,  1 88 1.  i6mo,  pp.  122. 


136  THE   CLASS   OF    1833. 

You  will  see  from  the  foregoing  that  I  have  been  a  rolling 
stone,  gathering  no  moss.  Cause,  —  inability  to 

"  Lick  absurd  pomp, 

And  crook  the  pregnant  hinges  of  the  knee, 
Where  thrift  may  follow  fawning." 

You  will  see,  further,  from  the  date  of  this,  that  I  have 
changed  my  residence.  Faulkland  is  seven  miles  and  a  half 
from  Wilmington  by  the  Delaware  Western  Railroad.  If  you 
ever  come  to  Wilmington,  don't  fail  to  come  out  here  and  pay 
me  a  visit.  You  will  find  a  hearty  welcome. 

If  I  am  alive  and  well,  I  shall  endeavor  to  be  with  you  next 
Commencement.  But  there  's  a  good  deal  in  that  "  if,"  for  I 
have  not  the  strength  that  I  had  a  year  ago.  That  I  have 
lasted  as  long  as  I  have,  is  in  the  teeth  of  the  doctrine  of  the 
"survival  of  the  fittest";  but  I  don't  believe  in  that  doctrine, 
at  least  where  mind  and  heart  enter  into  the  problem. 
I  remain,  your  old  classmate  and  friend, 

EDWARD  J.  STEARNS. 


HENRY  WARREN   TORREY. 

CAMBRIDGE,  May  21,  1883. 

MY  DEAR  HIGGINSON, — 
In  compliance  with  your  request,  I  send  you  a  few 
biographical  notes.     My  life  has  not  been  eventful  enough 
for  a  long  record. 

Having  spent,  after  taking  my  degree,  four  years  in  teach- 
ing, and  in  work  on  Leverett's  Latin  Lexicon,  I  removed  to 
New  Bedford,  and  began  to  study  law.  After  being  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1840,  I  returned  to  my  previous  occupation  of 
teaching.  This  calling  I  have  followed  in  school  or  in  col- 
lege, with  little  interruption,  to  the  present  time. 


NATHANIEL  S.    TUCKER.  137 

From  1844  to  1848  I  was  a  tutor  in  Harvard  College;  from 
1848  to  1856  I  kept  a  private  school  for  girls  in  Boston;  and 
from  1856  I  have  been  McLean  Professor  of  History  in  Har- 
vard College. 

Very  truly  yours, 

H.  W.  TORREY. 

In  1879,  Professor  Torrey  received  from  the  College,  with 
his  classmates  Professors  Bowen  and  Lovering,  the  degree 
of  LL.  D. 


NATHANIEL  SAVILLE  TUCKER. 

PEORIA,  ILL.,  July  i,  1882. 

DEAR    HlGGINSON, — 
After  getting  my  degree  of  M.  D.  in  1837,  I  practised 
medicine  in  South  Boston  for  a  short  time. 

In  1840  I  came  to  Peoria,  where  I  acted  as  county  physi- 
cian for  about  two  years ;  then  went  into  the  drug  business. 

In  1866  my  partner  and  myself  gave  up  the  drug  business, 
and  since  then  we  have  been  loaning  money,  looking  after 
our  real  estate,  and  other  matters. 

Our  firm  of  Tucker  and  Mansfield  is  the  oldest  in  the  city, 
we  having  been  connected  in  business  over  forty  years. 

I  was  never  married,  which  sometimes  I  regret  and  some- 
times I  do  riot. 

Regretting  that  the  details  are  so  meagre  and  common- 
place, I  remain,  with  regards  to  the  class, 

Yours  very  truly, 

N.  S.  TUCKER. 


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138  THE   CLASS   OF   1833. 


WINSLOW   MARSTON  WATSON. 

WINSLOW  MARSTON  WATSON,  soon  after  gradu- 
ating, chose  the  calling  of  a  journalist.   After  fledging 
his  wings  in  Boston  he  went  to  Troy,  N.  Y.,  and  his  subse- 
quent career  is  described  in  the  following  communications. 

WASHINGTON,  D.  C.,  June  29,  1882. 

MY  DEAR  HIGGINSON, — 

Your  favor  of  the  2;th  is  at  hand.  In  reply,  "  I  have  the 
honor  to  state,"  as  we  used  to  say,  or  write,  in  the  Treasury 
Department,  that  I  was  editor  of  the  "  Troy  Daily  Whig  " 
from  December,  1839,  to  July,  1845  5  of  the  "Albany  States- 
man," and  "Albany  Express,"  from  1846  to  1850;  of  the 
"Syracuse  Star"  from  1850  to  1852,  when  I  came  to  Wash- 
ington ;  from  which  city  I  corresponded  with  the  "  New  York 
Express"  from  1852  to  1869.  The  American  Organ  was 
published  in  1855  and  1856.  I  was  connected  with  it  more 
in  a  financial  than  an  editorial  capacity. 

In  1860  I  was  one  of  the  editors  of  the  "Union  Guard," 
a  campaign  paper  in  the  interest  of  Bell  and  Everett.  Dur- 
ing the  past  ten  years  I  have  written  many  articles  for  the 
"  Washington  Sunday  Herald."  I  was  a  very  warm  politician 
for  many  years,  but  now  I  feel  very  much  like  poor  Dr. 
Maginn  when  he  wrote  for  the  "  Noctes  "  these  lines :  — 

"  He  would  bore  us  with  gabber  critical 
About  your  curst  scribes  of  verse  or  prose. 
Send  him  to  rest  with  the  unpolitical, 
I  never  would  wish  to  get  drunk  with  those." 

From  April,  1861  to  August,  1869  I  was  in  the  War  and 
Treasury  Departments,  and  for  two  or  three  years  thereafter 
in  the  Congressional  Library  and  Census  Office. 


CHARLES   A.   WELCH.  139 

P.  S.  Early  this  morning  I  was  dreaming  of  our  Alma 
Mater.  I  am  glad  to  hear  the  "  old  lady  "  is  more  flourish- 
ing than  ever.  Give  my  love  to  her. 

I  am  your  sincere  friend, 

WINSLOW  M.  WATSON. 

Under  date  of  Washington,  July  21,  he  writes:  — 

"  My  wife  and  I  were  married  in  Grace  Church,  Newark, 
N.  J.,  by  Rev.  John  Lee  Watson,  August  9,  1852.  Her  name 
was  Louisa  E.  Gibbons,  a  daughter  of  James  Gibbons,  who 
came  from  Oxfordshire,  England,  to  Albany,  N.  Y.,  in  1792. 
His  wife,  Esther  Robinson,  a  native  of  Windsor,  was  often 
patted  on  the  head  by  old  Queen  Charlotte,  when  a  child, 

as  she  walked  along  the  Castle  terrace I  copy  from 

'Annals  of  Albany'  the  following  notice  of  Mr.  Gibbons: 
'  February  8,  1826,  James  Gibbons,  Alderman  of  the  Fifth 
Ward,  died.  If  ever  a  worthy  man  died,  he  was  that  man. 
In  the  language  of  Burns,  '  he  had  the  patent  of  his  honors 
immediately  from  Almighty  God.'  In  every  sense  of  the 
word  his  loss  will  be  severely  felt.'  " 


CHARLES   ALFRED  WELCH. 

BOSTON,  November  8,  1882. 

DEAR  HlGGINSON, — 
I  taught  Latin  and  Greek  at  the  "Academical  Depart- 
ment of  the  University  of  Maryland,"  in  Baltimore,  one  year, 
commencing  a  week  or  so  after  I  graduated.  It  went  by  the 
name  of  Baltimore  College  in  common  parlance.  I  com- 
menced the  study  of  the  law  in  Baltimore,  while  I  was  a 
teacher,  in  the  year  1834;  then  studied  two  terms  at  the 


140  THE   CLASS   OF   1833. 

Law  School  of  Harvard  University,  went  to  Springfield  in 
the  summer,  not  being  well,  and  studied  that  summer,  say 
about  four  months,  with  Bliss  and  Dwight.  Mr.  Bliss  was 
afterwards  President  of  the  Western  Railroad.  Mr.  William 
Dwight,  as  you  knew,  subsequently  engaged  in  manufac- 
turing, and  was  treasurer  of  certain  mills.  I  ended  off  in 
Sprague  and  Gray's  office,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at 
the  April  term  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  in  Suffolk 
County,  Mass.  This  term  ended  May  17,  1837,  but  the 
record  does  not  show  the  date  of  my  admission.  I  went  into 
partnership  with  Edward  D.  Sohier,  in  March,  1838,  and  the 
partnership  has  continued  unchanged,  without  addition  or 
subtraction,  from  that  date  to  this,  over  forty-four  years,  and 
I  suppose  will  so  continue  till  death  closes  the  concern. 

Perhaps  I  should  add,  that  I  was  born  January  30,  1815  ; 
went  to  Latin  School  in  September,  1823,  a  few  months 
before  I  was  nine  years  old,  and  was  always  frightened  when 
asked  my  age  till  I  became  nine,  the  legal  age  for  entering ; 
remained  at  Latin  School  six  years,  the  last  year  being  what 
was  then  called  a  resident  graduate. 

August  20,  1844,  I  married  Mary  Love  Boott,  daughter  of 
Kirk  Boott,  of  Lowell ;  have  two  children,  Charles  A.  Welch, 
who  seems  lately  to  have  retired  from  business,  and  Francis 
C.  Welch,  a  member  of  the  bar  of  Suffolk  County,  who  before 
studying  law  was  for  some  years  at  Washington  College,  of 
which  that  distinguished  man,  Robert  E.  Lee,  was  President. 

I  believe  that  this  answers  all  your  questions. 

Yours  truly, 

CHARLES  A.  WELCH. 


MORRILL   WYMAN. 


THOMAS  WIGGLESWORTH. 

THOMAS  WIGGLESWORTH,  born  and  bred  in  Boston, 
has  always  lived  in  that  City. 

After  graduating,  in  1833,  he  read  law  for  about  two  years, 
at  Northampton,  and  in  the  office  of  Hon.  Charles  G.  Loring 
of  Boston.  But  preferring  commerce  to  law,  he  went  into 
his  father's  counting-room  on  India  Wharf,  and  became  a 
merchant. 

He  continued  in  business  for  many  years,  but  gradually 
gave  it  up,  and  occupied  himself  with  the  care  of  property, 
his  own  and  others',  and  the  various  trusts  incident  thereto. 

He  is  a  cultivated  and  liberal  patron  of  art.     He  has  also 
responded  readily  to  the  demands  of  his  Alma  Mater. 
He  has  never  married. 

W.  H. 


MORRILL  WYMAN. 

I  WAS  born,  July  25,  1812,  in  Chelmsford,  Middlesex 
County,  Mass.  I  am  the  second  son  of  Rufus  Wyman 
and  Ann  (Morrill)  Wyman.  My  father  was  born  in  Woburn, 
Mass.,  in  1/78,  and  died  in  Roxbury,  Mass.,  in  1842.  My 
mother,  a  daughter  of  Deacon  James  Morrill,  was  born  in 
Boston  in  1784,  and  died  in  Roxbury  in  1843. 

In  1818  my  father  moved  to  the  McLean  Asylum  in 
Charlestown  as  its  first  physician  and  superintendent,  and 
here  was  my  home  for  seventeen  years.  My  early  education 
was  first  with  my  brothers  at  the  town  school  in  Charlestown, 
then  in  Lexington  under  the  care  of  Rev.  Caleb  Stetson,  then 


142  THE   CLASS   OF    1833. 

in  a  private  school  in  Charlestown.  After  a  year  at  an  acad- 
emy in  Chelmsford,  I  went  in  1827,  with  my  brother  Jeffries, 
to  Phillips  Exeter  Academy,  entered  Harvard  College  in  1829, 
under  President  Quincy,  and  was  graduated  in  regular  course 
in  1833. 

The  next  Monday  morning  after  graduation  I  reported  for 
duty  as  an  Assistant  Engineer  on  the  Boston  and  Worcester 
Railroad  to  its  Chief  Engineer,  Col.  John  M.  Fessenden.  I 
was  then  not  in  good  health,  but  my  active  duties  as  an 
assistant  on  a  railroad  on  which  no  rail  had  as  yet  been  laid, 
and  the  open  air  life,  were  of  great  use  to  me.  After  a  little 
more  than  a  year's  work,  finding  my  health  improved,  and 
having  earned  sufficient  money  with  economy  to  make  it  safe 
for  me  to  attempt  the  study  of  a  profession,  in  the  autumn 
of  1834  I  entered  my  name  as  a  medical  student  with  Dr. 
William  Johnson  Walker,  an  eminent  physician  and  surgeon 
of  Charlestown.  Under  Dr.  Walker  I  studied  in  the  usual 
manner  of  those  days,  reading  such  books  as  men  presented 
to  me,  and  seeing  such  cases  as  came  to  my  instructor's 
office,  and  occasionally  visiting  with  him  a  few  of  his  other 
patients,  while  making  his  usual  medical  visits.  Listening  to 
the  observations  and  teachings  of  a  most  acute  observer,  and 
being  directed  to  the  best  sources  of  information  as  to  the 
particular  case,  I  enjoyed  opportunities  now  seldom  offered 
to  medical  students.  At  the  same  time  I  attended  the  winter 
courses  of  Lectures  in  the  Medical  School  of  Harvard  Uni- 
versity. In  1836  I  was  appointed  House  Physician  to  the 
Massachusetts  General  Hospital,  residing  within  its  walls  one 
year,  and  was  admitted  to  the  degree  of  Doctor  in  Medicine 
at  the  Commencement  following.  On  the  I4th  of  September 
of  the  same  year  (1837),  I  went  to  Cambridge  to  establish 
myself  in  the  practice  of  medicine  and  surgery,  and  there  I 
have  remained  to  the  present  time. 

On  the  1 4th  of  August,  1839,  I  was  married  to  Elizabeth 
Aspinwall  Pulsifer,  daughter  of  Captain  Robert  Starkey 


MORRILL  WYMAN.  143 

Pulsifer,  a  Boston  shipmaster;  with  her  presence  I  am  still 
blessed.  I  was  elected  a  member  of  the  American  Academy 
of  Arts  and  Sciences,  June  9,  1843,  and  in  1856  Adjunct 
Hersey  Professor  of  the  Theory  and  Practice  of  Medicine 
in  Harvard  College  Medical  School.  From  1875  to  the 
present  time  I  have,  been  an  Overseer  of  the  College,  having 
been  elected  for  two  successive  full  terms. 

In  1850  I  invented  and  gave  to  my  profession  a  method 
of  removing  fluids  from  the  various  cavities  of  the  body, 
especially  the  chest.  It  consists  essentially  of  a  "  trocar  and 
cannula  "  of  a  very  small  diameter  fitted  to  an  "  exhausting 
syringe."  By  these  means  an  operation  before  considered  as 
always  dangerous,  and  often  fatal,  has  been  rendered  effectual, 
safe,  and  almost  painless.  In  various  forms  it  has  gone  into 
general  use,  and  has  been  applied  to  a  much  larger  variety  of 
cases  than  was  at  first  suggested.  I  hope  it  may  give  relief 
and  restore  to  health  the  subjects  of  disease  long  after  my 
name  shall  have  been  forgotten. 

My  children  are:  Elizabeth  Aspinwall,  born  July  23,  1840, 
cjied  March  2,  1862;  Anna  Morrill,1  born  July  23,  1840; 
Morrill,  born  July  10,  1855;  Jeffries,  born  June  15,  1859, 
died  August  26,  1860. 

MORRILL  WYMAN. 

CAMBRIDGE,  February  15,  1883. 

1  Married  Charles  F.  Walcott,  Esq.,  of  the  Boston  Bar,  and  has  children. 


NOTE  TO  PAGE  99.  —  William  Page  Andrews  devotes  much  time  to  letters, 
and  is  a  poet.  The  poems  of  Jones  Very,  published  many  years  ago  under  the 
auspices  of  Mr.  R.  W.  Emerson,  have  just  been  republished,  with  an  introduc- 
tory memoir  by  Mr.  Andrews,  written  in  good  taste  and  eloquently. 


LIST    OF    STUDENTS, 


SOME    TIME    IN    THE    CLASS    OF    1833,    WHO    DID    NOT 
GRADUATE    WITH    IT. 


*AMORY,  GEORGE  WILLIAM. 

BAILLIO,  GERVAIS. 
*BALDWIN,  LOAMMI. 
*CARTER,  JAMES. 
*DUNKIN,  CHRISTOPHER. 
*  ONES,  WILLIAM  AUGUSTUS. 
*Jov,  JOHN  BENJAMIN. 
*KEATING,  HORACE. 

KING,  RUFUS  TILDEN. 
•LAWRENCE,  RUFUS  BIGELOW. 
*MOODY,  WILLIAM  HENRY. 
*MURDOCK,  JOHN. 
•OLIVER,  FRANCIS  EBEN. 
•PARKER,  Lucius. 
•PRAY,  ISAAC  CLARK. 
•PRESCOTT,  THOMAS  OLIVER. 
•SHIMMIN,  WILLIAM. 
•TEMPLE,  HENRY  WARING  LATANE. 

18 


NOTICES  OF  STUDENTS, 

SOME    TIME    IN    THE    CLASS    OF    1833,    WHO    DID    NOT 
GRADUATE    WITH     IT. 


GEORGE  WILLIAM   AMORY. 

GEORGE  WILLIAM  AMORY  was  born  on  the  23d 
of  November,  1814.  He  entered  college  from  Milton, 
Mass.  His  name  appears  on  the  annual  catalogue  only  in 
the  freshman  and  sophomore  years.  During  the  former  he 
was  the  chum  of  Charles  A.  Welch. 

Soon  after  leaving  college,  he  went  to  Evansville,  Ind., 
where  his  family  had  extensive  landed  property.  Here  he 
married  Mary  Phillips,  of  Utica,  N.  Y.  He  remained  at  Evans- 
ville about  twenty  years.  He  then  returned  to  Massachusetts, 
and  soon  established  himself  at  the  Coolidge  House,  Bowdoin 
Square,  Boston,  where  he  spent  the  rest  of  his  life,  and  where 
he  died  on  the  /th  of  October,  1882. 

When  after  the  war  the  Harvard  Alumni  proposed  to  build 
Memorial  Hall  at  Cambridge,  he  generously  subscribed  and 
paid  $1,000  towards  the  sum  raised  for  that  purpose,  the 
largest  gift  from  any  individual  credited  to  the  class. 

He  had  three  sons.  Of  these  the  eldest,  John  Lowell 
Amory,  lived  in  Evansville,  where  he  married.  He  died  there 
in  1872,  leaving  five  children.  The  other  two,  Francis  and 
George  Kirkland  Amory,  now  live  with  their  mother  at  the 
Coolidge  House.  The  youngest  of  these,  George  K.,  is  a 
member  of  the  Nebraska  Bar. 


148  THE   CLASS   OF    1833. 


GERVAIS  BAILLIO. 

AS  nothing  has  been  heard  directly  from  this  classmate, 
the   secretary  here  inserts  the  substance  of  a  letter 
written  in  1858  by  Mr.  Baillio,  which  gives  the  record  of  his 
life  to  that  date. 

He  went  home  to  Louisiana  in  the  early  part  of  the  senior 
year,  and  became  engaged  in  marriage,  while  fully  intending 
to  return  and  graduate  with  the  class.  His  mother  was  so 
much  opposed  to  his  going  back,  however,  that  he  aban- 
doned his  intention,  purchased  a  tract  of  wild  land,  married, 
and  became  a  planter. 

For  twelve  years,  from  1839  to  1851,  he  resided  in  the 
parish  of  Avoyelles,  and  for  seven  years,  from  1839  to  1846, 
was  Parish  Judge.  This  office,  now  abolished,  involved  a 
multiplicity  of  arduous  duties,  both  judicial  and  ministerial, 
the  chief  of  which  were  those  of  probate.  In  1851,  finding 
his  plantation,  near  Alexandria,  required  more  of  his  personal 
attention,  he  returned  to  it.  He  wrote  from  this  plantation, 
situated  in  his  native  parish  of  Rapides,  which  in  point  of  re- 
sources and  wealth  ranks  as  the  third  in  the  State,  and  contains 
a  population  second  to  none  in  intelligence  and  refinement. 

He  has  had  ten  children,  six  sons  and  four  daughters;  the 
eldest  a  son  then  of  about  twenty- five  years  of  age,  the 
youngest  a  son  born  the  7th  of  April,  1858.  His  eldest  son 
lived  with  him,  and  assisted  in  his  planting  affairs.  His 
second  had  a  taste  for  mechanics,  and  was,  when  the  letter 
was  written,  on  his  way  to  a  machine-shop  at  Mount  Vernon, 
Ohio.  His  third  was  at  one  of  the  Missouri  colleges ;  and 
the  rest  of  his  children  were  under  his  own  roof. 

In  July,  1882,  wishing  to  hear  from  this  wise  old  classmate, 


GERVAIS   BAILLIO.  149 

the  secretary  wrote  to  the  Postmaster  at  Alexandria,  La.,  to 
inquire  about  him,  and  received  the  following  answer :  — 

ALEXANDRIA,  LA.,  July  28,  1882. 

MY  DEAR  SlR, —  Your  communication  to  the  Postmaster 
at  this  place,  making  inquiry  of  my  father,  Gervais  Baillio,  has 
been  duly  received,  and  in  reply  I  am  happy  to  say  that  he 
still  lives,  enjoys  robust  health,  is  in  the  seventy-second  year 
of  his  age,  splendidly  preserved,  and  weighs  about  two  hun- 
dred and  twenty-five  pounds. 

My  dear  old  father  remembers  you  well  as  a  dear  friend  and 
classmate,  and  desires  me  to  say  that  he  recalls  with  pleasure 
the  sweet  reminiscences  of  the  "  Coffee  Club." 1 

He  is  off  in  haste  from  home  in  the  morning,  and  requests 
that  I  inform  you  that  as  soon  as  he  returns  it  will  afford 
him  great  pleasure  to  respond  to  your  much  appreciated 
inquiry. 

I  am  his  youngest  child,  (am  twenty-four  years  of  age,)  and 
it  is  I  to  whom  he  has  intrusted  the  acknowledgment  of  your 
remembrance.  Hoping  to  be  honored  with  a  letter  from  you, 
at  your  earliest  convenience, 

I  am,  yours  very  respectfully, 

WM.  L.  BAILLIO. 

MR.  WALDO  HIGGINSON,  Boston,  Mass. 

I  answered  this  cordial  letter —  addressing  the  father — on 
August  20,  1882,  giving  a  full  account  of  all  the  changes  in 
his  circle  of  friends  that  I  supposed  would  interest  him. 

Receiving  no  answer,  I  wrote  again,  and  have  done  so  re- 
peatedly, but  still  no  reply. 

Whatever   may  have  been  the  reasons  which  led  to  this 
silence,  it  is  certain  that  to  those  who  knew  Mr.  Baillio  at  Cam- 
bridge he  must  always  remain  a  fitting  type  of  Terence's 
"  Antiqua  homo  virtute  ac  fide." 

1  The  "  Coffee  Club  "  consisted  of  Baillio,  Higginson,  Jackson,  and  Stone, 
and  met  every  week. 


150  THE   CLASS   OF    1833. 


LOAMMI   BALDWIN. 

LOAMMI  BALDWIN  was  the  son  of  B.  F.  Baldwin,  and 
nephew  of  those  distinguished  civil  engineers,  Loammi, 
James  F.,  and  George  R.  Baldwin.  His  grandfather,  Colonel 
Loammi  Baldwin,  commanded  a  regiment  in  the  Revolution, 
and  early  in  this  century  was  intrusted  by  the  proprie- 
tors with  superintending  the  construction  of  the  Middlesex 
Canal. 

Our  classmate's  name  appears  on  the  annual  catalogue 
only  in  the  freshman  and  sophomore  years.  After  leaving 
college,  he  followed  for  a  few  years  the  family  calling  in  this 
vicinity.  He  then  went  West,  and  bought  land  in  Scott 
County,  Illinois.  Here  he  became  a  farmer,  continuing  to 
pursue  engineering  as  opportunity  offered.  He  suddenly  died, 
of  disease  of  the  heart,  on  the  1st  of  March,  1855.  In  1847 
he  had  married  Helen  Avery,  of  the  same  county  in  Illinois, 
who  survived  him,  but  died  in  1858.  They  had  two  children, 
a  son  and  a  daughter.  The  son,  Loammi  F.,  adopted  the 
profession  of  the  family,  and  is  at  present  a  mining  engineer 
in  California.  The  daughter,  Mary  E.,  married  Mr.  Darius 
Mathewson,  of  Pomfret,  Conn.,  where  she  now  resides. 


JAMES   CARTER. 

JAMES    CARTER    entered    College    at    Commencement, 
1829,  from  Lancaster,  Mass.,  and  died,  much  lamented, 
at  Cambridge,  March  20,  1830. 


CHRISTOPHER   DUNKIN.  151 


CHRISTOPHER   DUNKIN. 

r  I  ""HE  following  obituary  of  this  distinguished  classmate 
-•-  appeared  in  the  Boston  Daily  Advertiser  of  January  29, 
1 88 1.  It  was  written  by  Professor  Bowen,  who  was,  during 
Mr.  Dunkin's  residence  in  Cambridge,  his  intimate  com- 
panion. 

Those  who  have  still  some  remembrance  of  the  interior 
history  of  Harvard  College,  and  of  society  in  Cambridge, 
from  1832  to  1836,  must  have  read  with  sorrow  the  recent 
announcement  of  the  death  of  the  Hon.  Christopher  Dunkin, 
a  judge  of  one  of  the  higher  courts  in  Canada,  aged  sixty- 
eight  years.  He  died  at  Knowlton,  near  Montreal,  January  6, 
1 88 1,  and  his  remains  were  brought  to  McGill  College,  of 
which  he  had  long  been  one  of  the  governing  body  and  in 
whose  affairs  he  had  taken  much  interest.  Most  of  the  mem- 
bers of  the  bench  and  the  bar,  as  well  as  the  faculty  of  the 
college,  attended  his  public  funeral  there  on  the  nth,  either 
as  pall-bearers  or  mourning  spectators,  the  coffin  being  borne 
to  Christ  Church  Cathedral,  where  the  last  rites  were  per- 
formed and  interment  took  place.  A  meeting  of  the  bar 
was  also  held  and  resolutions  were  passed,  expressing  the 
respect  and  affection  with  which  they  had  long  regarded 
the  deceased. 

Those  who  were  his  friends  in  his  early  youth  will  be 
struck  with  the  contrast  between  this  dignified  termination 
of  his  career,  ripe  in  years  and  honors,  and  its  brilliant  but 
checkered  beginning  here  at  Harvard,  almost  exactly  half  a 
century  ago.  They  first  knew  him  as  a  precocious  and  viva- 
cious English  boy,  fluent  in  speech  and  attractive  in  manners, 
who  had  already  won  for  himself,  in  two  universities  in  the 
mother  country,  a  high  reputation  for  scholarship  and  talent, 


152  THE  CLASS   OF   1833. 

and  who  evidently  cherished  a  firm  purpose  of  becoming  still 
more  distinguished  in  his  new  home.  Born  in  London,  the 
only  son  of  a  widow  with  small  means,  he  entered  the  Uni- 
versity of  Glasgow  at  the  age  of  fifteen,  and  carried  off  its 
highest  honors  at  the  end  of  a  twelvemonth,  as  the  first 
prizeman  of  his  year.  Seeking  a  new  field  for  effort,  he 
spent  the  next  year  at  the  University  of  London,  then  just 
created,  with  high  expectations  by  the  liberal  party,  as  an 
offset  to  the  aristocratic  and  Tory  institutions  at  Oxford  and 
Cambridge.  Here  also  he  succeeded,  being  declared  first 
scholar  of  his  class  during  the  single  year  that  he  remained 
with  them.  During  this  period  his  frequent  amusement  was 
to  attend  the  strangers'  gallery  in  the  House  of  Commons, 
in  order  to  hear  the  debates;  and  being  conscious  of  his 
own  marvellous  command  of  language  in  extemporaneous 
talk,  he  here  first  formed  and  nursed  his  great  ambition  of 
becoming  a  distinguished  debater  and  statesman.*  One  may 
smile  at  so  lofty  a  purpose  to  be  cherished  by  a  mere  boy; 
but  it  betokened  a  generous  disposition.  Meanwhile  his 
mother  had  married  again,  and  his  stepfather,  Dr.  Jonathan 
Barber,  having  emigrated  to  this  country,  was  appointed 
teacher  of  elocution  here  at  Harvard  in  1829,  an  office  for 
which,  in  spite  of  some  eccentricities  of  manner,  he  had 
peculiar  and  high  qualifications.  I  could  point  out  some 
distinguished  clergymen  and  lawyers  in  our  neighborhood 
who  were  indebted  for  their  first  success  in  the  pulpit  and 
at  the  bar  to  the  enthusiasm  for  the  art  of  rhetorical  delivery 
which  was  created  here  by  the  lectures  of  Dr.  Barber.  Nat- 
urally young  Dunkin  followed  his  mother  by  emigrating  to 
this  country  and  coming  to  her  home  at  Cambridge,  where 
he  was  matriculated  in  his  third  university  by  becoming  a 
member  in  its  junior  year  of  the  class  which  had  entered  as 
freshmen  in  1829.  Respected  by  all  his  Harvard  classmates 
for  his  brilliant  talents  and  amiable  character,  he  was  a  great 
favorite  with  a  few  of  them,  who  soon  became  his  particular 


CHRISTOPHER   DUNKIN.  153 

friends  because  they  sympathized  with  his  tastes,  appreciated 
his  literary  attainments,  and  liked  his  enthusiasm.  He  was 
sanguine,  ambitious,  and  perhaps  a  little  vain ;  with  such 
antecedents,  he  would  have  been  more  than  mortal  if  some 
boyish  vanity  had  not  been  developed  in  him.  Frank  and 
cheery  in  temperament,  cordial  in  his  manners,  generous  in 
disposition,  a  lively  talker  and  a  delightful  companion,  he 
was  a  being  made  to  be  admired  and  loved  by  all  who  really 
came  to  know  him. 

But  his  great  gift,  as  I  have  already  intimated,  was  his 
wonderful  fluency  and  correctness  of  speech  on  the  spur  of 
the  moment.  Give  him  any  topic  whatever  for  disquisition 
or  debate,  and  he  would  discourse  upon  it  for  the  hour  to- 
gether, often  in  stately  and  ornate  diction,  and  always  with 
so  correct  use  of  language,  that,  if  his  words  had  been  taken 
down  by  a  stenographer,  and  printed  just  as  he  uttered  them, 
the  verbal  critic  would  have  had  no  fault  to  find  with  them. 
Edward  Everett  himself,  no  mean  proficient  in  this  difficult 
art,  after  once  hearing  Dunkin  lecture  extemporaneously,  as 
he  always  did,  remarked:  "  He  must  be  bewitched  to  be  able 
to  talk  thus,  for  he  certainly  bewitches  his  audience."  What 
debates  we  had  in  the  Harvard  Union,  a  college  debating 
society  in  those  days,  when  Dunkin  was  our  premier,  our 
William  Pitt,  our  "leader  of  the  house." 

He  did  not  graduate,  the  routine  of  fixed  hours  and  set 
tasks  being  burdensome  to  him,  and  the  pleasure  and  profit 
of  lecturing  at  country  lyceums,  then  in  their  first  gloss  of 
novelty  and  popularity,  induced  him  to  leave  college  early 
in  his  senior  year.  Thus  he  spent  about  a  year  in  each  of 
three  different  universities,  and  graduated  in  neither.  But 
Harvard  almost  immediately  gave  him  an  honorary  degree, 
and  appointed  him  Tutor  in  Greek  before  he  was  twenty-one 
years  old.  He  was  abundantly  qualified  for  the  post  in  point 
of  scholarship,  but  in  every  other  respect  the  appointment 
was  a  mistake,  both  for  him  and  for  the  College.  As  a 

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154  THE   CLASS   OF    1833. 

foreigner,  far  more  conversant  with  the  customs  and  man- 
ners of  British  than  of  American  universities,  he  did  not 
understand  the  nature  of  Yankee  undergraduates  in  those 
days,  who  were  the  most  kindly  fellows  in  the  world  with 
an  instructor  whom  they  liked,  but  a  perfect  nest  of  hornets 
to  one  who  was  unpopular  on  account  of  his  youth  and  his 
nationality,  and  who  was  also  sensitive  in  temperament.  A 
series  of  petty  annoyances  followed,  which  were  perhaps  too 
sternly  repressed  by  the  Faculty,  and  so  the  rebellion  of  1834 
broke  out,  the  most  formidable  tempest  in  a  teapot  which 
Cambridge  has  witnessed  during  the  present  century.  Dunkin 
was  made  unhappy  by  it,  but  he  manfully  withstood  the  storm, 
and  continued  to  be  tutor  for  a  second  year  after  the  excite- 
ment had  passed  away.  Meanwhile  a  family  attachment  had 
sprung  up,  and  in  1835  he  married  the  daughter  of  his  step- 
father, the  lady  who  was  the  joy  and  light  of  his  home  for 
his  whelp  subsequent  life,  and  who  survives  him  to  mourn 
her  great  bereavement. 

Leaving  Cambridge  soon  after  his  marriage,  he  began  the 
study  of  law,  and  we  next  hear  of  him  as  private  secretary 
of  the  Hon.  Charles  Buller,  the  associate  of  Earl  Durham 
in  the  government  of  Canada  after  the  Papineau  rebellion 
in  that  Province  in  1837.  He  aided  Buller  in  drawing  up 
the  famous  "  Canada  Report,"  which  prepared  the  way  for  the 
establishment  of  virtual  autonomy  in  the  government  of  the 
English  colonies.  The  recall  of  Earl  Durham  put  an  end  to 
this  engagement,  and  Mr.  Dunkin  then  applied  himself  ear- 
nestly and  successfully  to  his  practice  at  the  bar.  His  great 
ability  as  an  advocate  in  the  courts  soon  became  manifest, 
and  he  justly  acquired  an  eminent  place  in  the  profession, 
and  was  henceforward  a  prosperous  man.  After  a  while  his 
ambition  for  a  political  career  was  kindled  afresh.  He  was 
elected  to  the  Canadian  Parliament,  became  a  member  of 
the  ministry,  and  took  a  leading  share  in  the  debates  on  the 
perplexing  questions  respecting  the  clergy  reserves  and  the 


JONES.— JOY.  155 

conversion  of  the  feudal  tenures.  But  experience  proved  that 
his  organization  was  too  delicate  and  his  tastes  too  refined 
for  the  coarse  details  and  intrigues  of  colonial  politics,  and 
he  gladly  withdrew  to  the  comparative  quiet  of  his  labors  at 
the  bar.  Promotion  to  the  bench  soon  followed,  and  the 
remainder  of  his  career  was  honored,  prosperous,  and  un- 
eventful. He  had  gathered  around  him  -many  associates  and 
loving  friends  in  the  home  of  his  maturer  years ;  but  by  none 
of  these  will  his  death  be  more  regretted,  or  his  memory  be 
more  fondly  cherished,  than  by  those  who  were  his  compan- 
ions and  admirers  during  his  youthful  career  at  Harvard  just 
half  a  century  ago. 

ONE  OF  HIS  CLASSMATES. 

Cambridge,  January  27,  1881. 


WILLIAM   AUGUSTUS  JONES. 

WrILLIAM  AUGUSTUS  JONES  was  with  the  class 
only  part  of  the  freshman  year.  After  leaving 
Cambridge,  he  went  into  a  counting-room,  and  became  a 
commission  merchant  in  Cincinnati  and  New  Orleans,  after- 
wards a  planter  in  Texas,  where  he  died.  He  married  and 
had  children. 


JOHN   BENJAMIN  JOY. 

JOHN   BENJAMIN   JOY  was  the   son  of  Benjamin    and 
Hannah  (Barrell)  Joy,  and  was  born  in  Boston,  Janu- 
ary 3,  1814.     Joseph  Barrell,  the  father  of  Mrs.  Joy,  owned 
and  occupied  the  'farm  at  Somerville,  Mass.,  afterwards  the 


156  THE   CLASS   OF    1833. 

property  of  the  McLean  Asylum  for  the  Insane.  His  house 
was  the  large  central  building  of  the  group  now  used  by 
that  institution. 

Mr.  Benjamin  Joy  died,  September  14,  1829,  just  at  the 
commencement  of  his  son's  college  life.  Our  classmate's 
name  appears  only  on  the  roll  of  the  freshman  year,  and 
again  in  the  senior  year,  as  a  university  student.  In  the 
latter  year  he  had  the  apartments  on  Harvard  Street  sub- 
sequently taken  and  still  occupied  by  the  Porcellian  Club. 
Of  this  society  he  was  a  prominent  member. 

After  leaving  Cambridge,  he  returned  to  Boston.  He  never 
studied  any  profession  or  engaged  in  any  business. 

On  the  6th  of  January,  1835,  ne  married  Ellen  Marion, 
daughter  of  Hon.  Stephen  White,  of  Salem,  Mass.  They 
had  six  children,  but  one  only  survived  them,  Charles  H.  Joy, 
now  the  head  of  the  house  of  Joy,  Lincoln,  and  Motley,  selling 
agents  for  several  large  manufacturing  establishments. 

Mr.  Joy  was  an  intimate  friend  of  Fletcher  Webster,  and 
closely  connected  with  him  by  marriage.  He  was  naturally, 
therefore,  often  at  Marshfield,  and  remained  through  life  much 
in  the  Webster  circle,  —  a  position  peculiarly  agreeable  to 
one  of  his  genial  temperament.  He  was  the  more  fitted  for 
it,  because  he  sympathized  strongly  in  that  love  of  field 
sports  which  pervaded  the  atmosphere  of  Green  Harbor. 
He  was  a  good  shot  and  an  expert  angler,  so  that  he  could 
offer  congenial  companionship  even  to  the  great  statesman 
himself. 

In  the  spring  of  1858,  and  again  in  the  autumn  of  1859,  he 
visited  Europe  with  his  wife  and  son. 

Mrs.  Joy  died  at  their  summer  residence  in  Lynn,  Mass., 
May  8,  1861.  Her  husband  survived  her  just  three  years,  and 
died  at  Marshfield,  May  5,  1864. 


KEATING. —KING.  — LAWRENCE.  157 


HORACE    KEATING. 

HORACE   KEATING  was  with  the  class  in  the  fresh- 
man and  sophomore  years,  and  then  left  Cambridge. 
He  afterwards  went  South,  and  became  a  planter  in  Missis- 
sippi, where  he  married  a  widow,  and  died  in  1853  or  1854. 

Of  the  striplings  that  went  up  to  be  examined  the  day  after 
Commencement,  1829,  none  was  brighter  or  handsomer  than 
Horace  Keating ;  but  the  above  shadowy  record  gives  all  that 
can  now  be  learned  of  him,  even  in  the  city  of  his  birth,  in 
whose  immediate  vicinity  a  large  family  connection  continue 
to  reside. 


RUFUS   TILDEN   KING. 

THE  name  of  Rufus  Tilden  King  appears  on  the  annual 
catalogue  of  the  first  three  years.     He  then  left  col- 
lege, subsequently  joined  the  class  of   1834,  and  graduated 
with  it. 


RUFUS   BIGELOW   LAWRENCE. 

THE  name  of  Rufus  Bigelow  Lawrence  appears  on  the 
annual  catalogue  of  the  first  two  years.     He  then  left 
college,  subsequently  joined  the  class  of  1834,  and  graduated 
with  it. 


158  THE   CLASS   OF    1833. 


WILLIAM    HENRY  MOODY. 

'I  T  7ILLIAM  HENRY  MOODY,  son  of  Paul  and  Susan 
*  »  L.  Moody,  was  born  in  Byfield,  Mass.  His  father  was 
a  distinguished  mechanic,  —  one  of  those  remarkable  men 
whom  the  Lowells,  the  Jacksons,  and  the  Bootts  had  the  gift 
to  draw  around  them  in  that  busy  decade  following  1820, 
which  ushered  in  the  American  factory  system.  The  son 
came  to  college  from  Lowell,  but  his  name  appears  on  the 
annual  catalogue  only  in  the  freshman  year.  At  the  end  of  it 
he  left  Cambridge  and  entered  upon  business  pursuits.  He 
married  Martha,  daughter  of  Dr.  John  Brickett,  of  Newbury- 
port,  and  died  at  that  place,  November  7,  1841,  leaving  a 
widow  and  three  daughters. 


JOHN    MURDOCH. 

JOHN  MURDOCH,  after  leaving  college  in  the  sophomore 
year,  entered  a  counting-room  in  Boston.  He  left  this 
for  a  similar  position  at  New  Orleans,  where  he  remained 
several  years. 

In  1 850  he  returned  to  Boston,  married  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  Mr.  William  Smith,  a  sea-captain  of  that  port,  and  then 
went  a  second  time  to  New  Orleans.  From  that  city  he  re- 
moved to  St.  Louis.  Then  he  lived  for  many  years  in  New 
York,  where  he  was  attached  to  the  water-works.  Finally 
he  was  employed  in  San  Francisco. 

In  each  place  his  longings  to  become  an  artist,  and  his 
occasional  trials  as  such,  prevented  his  entire  success  as  a 
clerk.  With  early  instruction  in  the  profession  that  he  loved, 
he  would  probably  ^have  attained  distinction. 


FRANCIS    EBEN    OLIVER.  159 

At  San  Francisco,  he  was  struck  down  by  paralysis.  He 
was  removed  to  the  East,  and  died,  May  16,  1871,  at  country 
lodgings  in  Pepperell,  Mass. 

His  wife  died  several  years  before  him.  They  had  one  son 
and  four  daughters.  His  son  John  (H.  C.  1873)  is  now  at 
Point  Barrow,  in  Alaska,  enlisted  in  the  United  States  service 
as  Observer,  and  in  that  of  the  Smithsonian  Institute  as 
Naturalist.  His  papers,  published  in  the  Boston  Daily  Adver- 
tiser, October  21  and  November  4,  1882,  give  an  interesting 
account  of  scientific  life  in  the  Arctic  region. 

Mr.  Murdoch's  daughters  live  with  their  relatives  at  Rox- 
bury,  Mass. 


FRANCIS   EBEN   OLIVER. 

FRANCIS  EBEN  OLIVER,  son  of  Francis  Johonnot  and 
Mary  Caroline  (Alsop)  Oliver,  was  born  November  24, 
1813.     His  father  (H.  C.  1795),  who  died  in  1858,  was  a  well- 
known  and  much  respected  citizen  of  Boston. 

Our  classmate's  name  appears  in  the  annual  catalogue  only 
in  the  junior  year.  He  was  an  invalid  from  childhood,  and 
while  a  boy  accompanied  Mr.  and  Mrs.  B.  A.  Gould  to  Europe, 
whence  he  returned  in  1830.  He  entered  college  the  follow- 
ing year,  but  was  obliged  to  leave  before  becoming  senior,  on 
account  of  weakness  of  eyes.  This  and  a  great  tendency  to 
rheumatic  affections  prevented  him  from  entering  on  any  pro- 
fession, and  made  him  an  exile.  He  travelled  extensively, 
preferring  the  South  of  Europe  and  the  vicinity  of  the  Medi- 
terranean, on  which  he  was  fond  of  cruising  about  in  sailing 
vessels.  He  was  in  France  and  Italy  on  several  occasions  of 
great  political  excitement,  and  has  left  very  complete  journals 


I6O  THE   CLASS   OF    1833. 

filled  with  interesting  details.  He  crossed  the  Atlantic  many 
times,  but  the  state  of  his  health  gradually  curtailed  the  length 
of  his  Boston  visits.  The  last  three  years  of  his  life  were 
passed  abroad,  and  he  died  in  London,  June  9,  1850,  at  the 
age  of  thirty-seven.  His  remains  were  brought  home  and 
interred  in  the  family  tomb  under  King's  Chapel. 

Such  is  the  short  record  of  a  man  who  was  greatly  loved 
and  valued  by  the  best  of  his  contemporaries.  Though  largely 
cut  off,  by  ill  health,  from  facilities  of  acquiring  knowledge, 
he  yet  became  a  well-read  man  generally,  and  a  good  belles- 
lettres  scholar.  He  was  a  cultivated  lover  of  art,  and  an 
extremely  agreeable  talker.  It  was  his  character,  however, 
more  than  his  .accomplishments,  that  endeared  him  to  his 
friends,  —  a  genial,  sunny  nature,  a  spontaneous  flow  of  spirits, 
triumphing  over  bodily  ailments,  made  him  a  delightful  com- 
panion, whose  presence  always  brought  cheer  to  a  large  home 
circle.  But  the  epithet  that  best  befits  him  is 

"  The  grand  old  name  of  gentleman." 

With  that  high  ideal  he  must  ever  be  associated,  and  it  is 
recalled  with  the  memory  of  his  marked  personal  appear- 
ance,—  his  tall,  slender  figure,  his  refined  expression,  and 
his  pale,  dark  skin,  indicative  of  Huguenot  descent. 


LUCIUS   PARKER. 

'THHE  name  of  Lucius  Parker  appears  on  the  annual  cata- 
-*-       logue  only  in  the  freshman  year.     He  then  left  col- 
lege, subsequently  joined  the  class  of  1834,  and  graduated 
with  it. 


ISAAC  CLARK  PRAY.  i6l 


ISAAC   CLARK  PRAY. 

TO  those  of  the  class  who  remember  the  freshman  year, 
this  name  will  recall  an  alert  young  man,  prominent  in 
class  gatherings,  and  rather  premature  in  all  things,  who  had 
already  the  reputation  of  an  author.  It  was  a  joke  of  Wat- 
son's that  the  society  of  the  I.  O.  H.  —  born  of  our  freshman 
year  —  "  had  a  library  chiefly  consisting  of  Fray's  works." 

He  left  college  at  the  end  of  the  first  year,  and  was  lost 
sight  of.  Nearly  forty  years  after,  Jeffries  Wyman,  whose 
loyal  heart  kept  all  the  traditions  of  our  undergraduate  days, 
says,  in  a  letter  dated  July  4,  1868  :  "  I  went  to  Portland  a  few 
days  since,  when  a  youngish-looking  gentleman  put  his  hand 
on  my  shoulder,  who  proved  to  be  nobody  else  than  the  poet 
of  our  class  (not  the  class  poet),  on  his  way  to  make  arrange- 
ments for  a  performance  of  the  Bateman  Opera  Troupe.  It 
was  refreshing  to  learn  how  large  a  part  he  plays  in  the  world, 
in  writing  for  newspapers,  in  various  services  in  the  cause  of 
the  legitimate  drama,  translating  operas  into  blank  verse, 
aiding  indigent  individuals  to  opportunities  for  usefulness  in 
connection  with  the  press,  and  ever  so  much  besides.  He 
is  the  best  preserved  man  of  our  whole  number,  and  will 
compete  even  with  Lowell." 

It  was  not  until  it  became  necessary  to  learn  something 
about  him  for  Commencement,  1883,  that  the  secretary  found 
this  sometime  classmate  had  quite  surpassed  his  early  prom- 
ise. In  Drake's  Dictionary  of  American  Biography  appears 
the  following :  "  Pray,  Isaac  Clark,  editor,  author,  and  dram- 
atist, born  in  Boston,  1813,  died  in  New  York,  November 
28,  1869.  Graduated  at  Amherst  College,  1833.  Son  of  a 
Boston  merchant  of  same  name.  Some  time  connected  with 
the  Journal  of  Commerce,  and  afterward  wrote  for  the  Herald ; 
was  the  author  of  '  Virginius,'  and  was  very  successful  as  a 

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1 62  THE   CLASS   OF    1833. 

theatrical  manager.  He  trained  many  celebrities  for  the  stage, 
among  whom  was  Charlotte  Cushman.  He  was  in  England 
in  1846-47,  and  performed  successfully  at  the  Queen's  Thea- 
tre, London,  and  the  Theatre  Royal,  Liverpool,  and  Cork,  in 
the  highest  walk  of  the  drama.  Author  of  '  Prose  and  Verse,' 
I2mo,  1835;  'Poems,'  I2mo,  1837;  'Book  of  the  Drama,' 
8vo,  1851  ;  '  Memoirs  of  J.  G.  Bennett,'  1855  ;  and  of  several 
burlesques  and  plays.  Edited  'The  Shrine,'  a  monthly,  pub- 
lished at  Amherst,  1831-33;  'Boston  Pearl,'  weekly,  1834; 
also  many  other  magazines  and  reviews." 

Dr.  Charles  Deane,  of  Cambridge,  who  kindly  discovered 
the  above,  writes  that  Mr.  Pray  married  Miss  Helen  Henry, 
of  South  Hadley,  Mass.,  and  had  two  children,  daughters, 
now  married. 


OLIVER    PRESCOTT. 

OLIVER  PRESCOTT,  born  in  Boston,  May  29,  1814, 
was  the  son  of  Samuel  Jackson  and  Margaret  (Hiller) 
Prescott.  He  entered  Harvard  College  at  the  commence- 
ment of  1829,  and  remained  during  the  freshman  year,  long 
enough  to  show  his  earnestness  as  a  student ;  but  before  the 
next  year  began,  he  was  obliged  to  leave  on  account  of  his 
eyes. 

In  April,  1831,  he  went  to  Cuba  for  the  benefit  of  his 
health.  He  remained  there  a  year,  and  returned  much  im- 
proved. He  then  took  a  situation  in  the  Woodward  High 
School  at  Cincinnati,  to  teach  Latin  and  Greek.  He  next 
began  the  study  of  the  law  with  Judge  Timothy  Walker  of 
that  city  (H.  C.  1826).  He  gave  up  this  profession  to 
become  Pastor  of  the  Swedenborgian  Church  in  Cincinnati, 
in  which  office  he  remained  till  1847. 


PRESCOTT.  — SHIMMIN.  163 

He  then  returned  to  Boston  and  sailed  for  Europe,  where 
he  travelled  one  year.  In  1848  he  took  charge  of  the  Swe- 
denborgian  Society  in  Glasgow,  Scotland.  Here  he  mar- 
ried, June  5,  1849,  Jessie  Mackie,  who  died  childless  in  1854. 
In  this  year  he  took  the  name  of  Hiller,  after  his  maternal 
grandfather,  Major  Joseph  Hiller,  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution, 
appointed  by  Washington  the  first  Collector  of  Salem,  Mass., 
then  an  important  position.  What  rendered  this  change  of 
name  more  attractive  to  our  classmate  was  doubtless  that 
Major  Hiller  was  an  early  admirer  of  the  writings  of  Baron 
Swedenborg,  and  imported  the  first  entire  set  of  his  works 
that  came  to  America. 

Oliver  Prescott  Hiller  went  to  London  soon  after  his  wife's 
death,  took  charge  of  the  church  there,  and  in  1864  married 
Emma  Stokes. 

He  was  all  his  life  a  hard  student,  in  spite  of  defective 
vision.  He  is  said  to  have  spoken  eloquently  and  to  have 
reasoned  closely,  and  though  eccentric  and  somewhat  hot- 
tempered  he  was  honored  wherever  known,  —  a  reputation 
easily  credited  by  those  who  remembered  him  as  a  boy. 
His  last  literary  work  was  a  translation  of  the  Psalms,  left 
incomplete  at  his  death.  His  last  illness  was  from  softening 
of  the  brain,  brought  on,  it  was  thought,  by  overwork,  his 
labor  ceasing  only  with  his  life. 

He  died  in  London,  May  11,  1870,  leaving  his  widow  and 
three  children  in  that  city,  where  they  still  reside. 


WILLIAM   SHIMMIN. 

\  WILLIAM  SHIMMIN  was  the  son  of  William  and  Eliza 
^  ^      (Parker)  Shimmin,  of  Boston.     He  entered  Harvard 
College  at  the  Commencement  of  1829,  and  left  at  the  end 
of  the  freshman  year. 


164  THE   CLASS    OF    1833. 

On  leaving  college  he  went  into  a  counting-room,  and  sub- 
sequently was  in  business  in  Boston  and  New  York. 

He  married  twice,  and  had  five  children,  two  sons  and  three 
daughters.  The  sons  died  before  him.  He  himself  died  at 
St.  Louis,  Missouri,  July  23,  1876. 


HENRY  WARING   LATANE  TEMPLE. 

TV  /TR.  TEMPLE  was  in  the  class  during  the  freshman 
i.»  J.  year  only.  To  the  secretary's  inquiry  of  the  post- 
master at  the  place  of  his  residence  twenty-five  years  ago, 
the  following  answer  came. 

MILLER'S  TAVERN,  ESSEX  Co.,  VA., 
October  23,  1882. 

MR.  WALDO  HIGGINSON  :  — 

Dear  Sir,  —  I  have  been  requested  to  answer  your  letter  of 
inquiry  about  Rev.  H.  W.  L.  Temple.  I  am  sorry  to  state 
that  Mr.  Temple  died  eleven  years  ago,  February,  1871.  He 
was  for  twenty  years  the  faithful  pastor  of  South  Farnham 
Parish  (P.  E.  C.)  of  Essex.  Six  children  are  now  alive,  — 
three  sons  and  three  daughters.  The  three  sons  are  two  in 
Arkansas  and  one  in  Texas.  The  three  daughters  live  here 
in  Essex.  I  married  the  oldest  daughter,  and  will  gladly 
furnish  any  additional  information,  if  desired. 

Yours  truly, 

WARNER  LEWIS,  M.  D. 


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